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Posted on by LC-29041152-0

Hi to all!

I was working with intercompany query and based on some parameters I have to execute a query for specific companies only.

From standard documentation I see the syntax for 'while select crosscompany' can accept a container specifying for which companies it should execute.

Syntax is as follows: 'while select crosscompany : myContainer'.

In my implementation it is a valid scenario that the query should not execute if 'no company' was selected.

I though that passing an empty container to the above syntax would skip the query entirely, but apparently it executes for ALL companies (same as the no-container syntax).

Easy to fix with an 'if' before the query, but I am surprised and find the behavior counter-intuitive.

I could not find any confirmation of this behavior.

Can someone point to a similar example (even STD code) or confirm my finding?

Thank you all!

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Mohamed Amine Mahmoudi 26,811 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi,

In your case the container is an option(Not required) in select statement.

you can write the select statement without container.

if it is empty I think it will be considered as null.

Please refer to official documentation

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamicsax-2012/developer/cross-company-x-code-basics

Best regards,

Mohamed Amine MAHMOUDI

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Layan Jwei 8,282 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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Hi Community member,

I didn't try it before, but if you are saying an empty container is returning data from all companies, then indeed you can use an if condition OR you can specify the legal entities you are interested with in the select statement, so that if no match is found nothing is returned, i mean sth like this: (while select crosscompany table1 where dataAreaId = USMF || dataAreaId = DAT)

Check this link for more info about cross-company
https://ontargit.com/en/working-with-intercompany-functionality/

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Layan Jweihan
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LC-29041152-0 14 on at

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Hi to all, thanks for your answers.

Solution is straight forward for me, I can check for empty container and return before executing the query.

Unfortunately suggested solution in adding the companies as a range is not doable as the container content is not fixed. To allow to construct a proper range I should loop the container and build the query with QueryRun and QueryBuildDataSource, which now will be quite some work (I have three big queries with this requirement).

Again, unfortunately standard documentation does not specify the behavior with an empty container. I though the encountered behavior was counter-intuitive, but apparently nobody used it as I did yet.

Anyway, I hope this post will be useful as reference to other for the future :)

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