While Select statement and Containers

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Is there any way Containers can be used in a while select statement? This is what I want to achieve:

Container Items;
PurchLine purchLine;
int i;
;
Items = [9109-0018,9109-0019,9109-0022,9109-0025];

for (i=1; i <= conlen(Items); i++)
{
while select PurchId from purchLine
where purchLine.ItemId == conpeek(custTransCont, i)
{

info(purchLine.PurchId);
}
}

But AX won't let me compare the value grabbed from conpeek. I guess it cannot... but wondering if you gents got any solution for it? Maybe I am not thinking it through

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André Arnaud de Cal... 303,730 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi Khosla,

You can create a variable where you first store the Item from the container. This variable can be used in the select statement as workaround, so try this:

Container Items;

PurchLine purchLine;

ItemId itemId;

int i;

;

Items = [9109-0018,9109-0019,9109-0022,9109-0025];

for (i=1; i <= conlen(Items); i++)

{

itemId = conpeek(custTransCont, i);

while select PurchId from purchLine

where purchLine.ItemId == itemId

{

info(purchLine.PurchId);

}

}

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Oh my god, I feel so dumb.

Thanks!

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I don't understand but where did the custTransCont come from?

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Martin Dráb 239,040 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Note that the code is quite inefficient, because it executes a database query for each item in the container. A better approach would be constructing a query with several ranges and running it once. Like this:

Query q = new Query(); QueryRun qr; QueryBuildDataSource ds = q.addDataSource(tableNum(PurchLine)); ds.addSelectionField(fieldNum(PurchLine, PurchId)); for (i = 1; i <= conlen(items); i++) { itemId = conpeek(items, i); ds.addRange(fieldNum(PurchLine, ItemId).value(queryValue(itemId)); } qr = new QueryRun(q); while (qr.next()) { PurchLine purchLine = qr.get(tableNum(PurchLine)); info(purchLine.PurchId); }

By the way, I would avoid containers unless there is a good reason for using them. A set of strings would be a good alternative in this case.

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