Cross-Company Reports in the AOT

Applies To: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Feature Pack, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

You can use the Application Object Tree (AOT) to create a cross-company report. The simplest way to create a report is to set the AllowCrossCompany property to Yes on your query. Then drag the query node onto your report's Data Sources node.

To fully control the cross-company behavior of an AOT query or report, you must understand the relationships between:

• AOT query node

• Query class

• QueryRun class

For basic information about cross-company queries, see Cross-Company X++ Code Basics.

Relationships between AOT, Query, and QueryRun

The properties of an AOT query node match the Query class. The methods available for override on a query node match the QueryRun class.

The QueryRun class has a property method named query, which is the query instance it will run. You can access this QueryRun .query property in methods that you override on the Queries node of the AOT. This enables you to control the details of the cross-company behavior at run time.

AllowCrossCompany Property

In the AOT, query node objects have the AllowCrossCompany property listed in the Properties window. For new queries the default value is No (which is equivalent to false in X++ code). To make a query cross-company you need to set AllowCrossCompany to Yes.

The classes QueryRun and Query both have the AllowCrossCompany property, but their values always equal each other. When you read AllowCrossCompany from QueryRun, QueryRun reads it from Query. When you set AllowCrossCompany on QueryRun, it sets in on Query.

Company Range Methods in AOT Reports

You can override methods on the AOT report node to control the details of cross-company behavior. For example, you could override the report's init method with the following X++ code.

    public void init()
    {
        super();
        this.query().allowCrossCompany( true );
        this.query().addCompanyRange( "dat" );
        this.query().addCompanyRange( "dmo" );
    }

See also

MorphX Reporting Tools

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