Want to create user-accessible form in Axapta that uses SQL with a substring function

Question

I have some sqlserver sql that due to data can't be modified, which I currently run from Sqlserver. It uses a substring function. I want to stop running it from Sqlserver and create a user-accessible form in which the user enters a date and the script goes off and does it's thing and returns row data to the user.

Not overly familar with X++. I've looked at reports, querys, jobs, statement classes, not sure what's the correct path.

Below is the sql code.

'
select a.description,b.itemid, c.phantom,a.createddatetime,a.createdby
from sysdatabaselog A

   inner join
   bomversion B
   on substring(a.description,1,11) = b.bomid

   inner join
   inventtable C
   on b.itemid = c.itemid

where (table_ = 18 and logtype=1)
and a.CREATEDDATETIME > '2018-03-01'     <-------- this would be user-supplied on the form 
and c.phantom=1          
'

Answer 1

What you're trying to accomplish is actually pretty high-level in AX and requires a several different dev techniques to accomplish it. I'm not going to do the entire thing for you, but I'll get you started and tell you what you need to do. These screenshots are from AX2012.

To accomplish the SUBSTRING() you need an AX View + String computed column.

For your view, you'll want an AX Query object to contain your joins OR you can just do a simple view on the BOMVersion table and then work against that.

Here's an example View and String computed column and the method for the computed column. I just used SalesTable and SalesId as the sample.

public static server str compSubStrSalesName()
{
    str result;

    result = strFmt("SUBSTRING(%1, 1, 5)",
                SysComputedColumn::returnField(identifierStr(SubStringExample), // The name of your view
                                               identifierStr(SalesTable_1), // The name of your view's datasource
                                               identifierStr(SalesId) // The name of the field
                                               )
    );

    return result;
}