Hi, I recently found a very good article from Sumit Loya's Blog on AxD  "How extra elements can be added to the XML string in AIF".

Thanks a lot Sumit for this wonderful article.

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Adding extra elements to XML string in AIF

Hi......For sending/receiving any XML the Dynamics AIF Framework is used. There is an alternate way of doing the same operation without AIF setup. Please find the below examples for all the actions.

Example: Read  

static void VendorOutbound(Args _args)

{

    AxdVendTable                    axdVendTable;

    AifEntityKey                       entityKey       = new AifEntityKey();

    AifPropertyBag                   aifPropertyBag;

    VendTable                          vendTable;

    XmlDocument                     xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();

    ;

    select firstonly vendTable;

    entityKey.parmKeyDataMap(SysDictTable::getKeyData(vendTable));

    axdVendTable = AxdBase::newClassId(classnum(AxdVendTable));

    xmlDocument.loadXml(axdVendTable.read(entityKey, null, new  AifEndpointActionPolicyInfo(), new AifConstraintList(), aifPropertyBag));

    xmlDocument.save('c:\\AxdServiceOrder_Out1.xml');

}

Example: Create 

static void createInboundProjectHourJournal(Args _args)

{

    AxdProjectHourJournal                axdProjetcHourJournal;

    XmlDocument                             xmlDocument;

    AifEndPointActionPolicyInfo         endPointAction = new AifEndPointActionPolicyInfo();

    AifConstraintList                         aifConstraint     = new AifConstraintList();

    AifDocumentXml                         xmlDoc;

    ;

    xmlDocument = new xmlDocument();

    xmlDocument.load("c:\\ProjectHourCreate.xml");

    axdProjetcHourJournal = AxdBase::newClassId(ClassNum(AxdProjectHourJournal));

    xmlDoc = xmlDocument.toString();

    axdProjetcHourJournal.create(xmlDoc, endPointAction, aifConstraint);

} 

Example: CreateList 

static void createListInboundServiceOrder_Item(Args _args)

{

    AxdServiceOrder                         axdServiceOrder;

    XmlDocument                             xmlDocument;

    AifEndPointActionPolicyInfo         endPointAction = new AifEndPointActionPolicyInfo();

    AifConstraintListCollection           aifConstraint     = new AifConstraintListCollection();

    AifDocumentXml                         xmlDoc;

    ;

    xmlDocument = new xmlDocument();

    xmlDocument.load("c:\\AxdServiceOrderCreate.xml");

    axdServiceOrder = AxdBase::newClassId(ClassNum(AxdServiceOrder));

    xmlDoc = xmlDocument.toString();

    axdServiceOrder.createlist(xmlDoc, endPointAction, aifConstraint);

}

Example: Update

static void updateInboundServiceOrder_Item(Args _args)

{

    AxdServiceOrder                      axdServiceOrder;

    XmlDocument                          xmlDocument;

    AifEndPointActionPolicyInfo     endPointAction = new AifEndPointActionPolicyInfo();

    AifConstraintListCollection       aifConstraintC  = new AifConstraintListCollection();

    AifConstraintList                     aifConstraint    = new AifConstraintList();

    AifDocumentXml                     xmlDoc;

    AifEntityKey                           entityKey;

    ;

    xmlDocument = new xmlDocument();

    xmlDocument.load("c:\\axdServiceOrderInventDim.xml");

    axdServiceOrder = AxdBase::newClassId(ClassNum(AxdServiceOrder));

    xmlDoc = xmlDocument.toString();

    axdServiceOrder.update(entityKey, xmlDoc, endPointAction, aifConstraint);

}

Example: Delete

static void deleteServiceOrder(Args _args)

{

    AxdServiceOrder                 axdServiceOrder;

    AifEntityKey                       entityKey        = new AifEntityKey();

    AifEntityKeyList                  entityKeyList   = new AifEntityKeyList();

    AifPropertyBag                    aifPropertyBag;

    SMAServiceOrderTable        sMAServiceOrderTable;

    XmlDocument                      xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();

    ;

    select firstonly sMAServiceOrderTable where sMAServiceOrderTable.ServiceOrderId == '0000083_SO';

    entityKey.parmKeyDataMap(SysDictTable::getKeyData(sMAServiceOrderTable));

    axdServiceOrder = AxdBase::newClassId(classnum(axdServiceOrder));

    entityKeyList.addEntityKey(entityKey);

    axdServiceOrder.deleteList(entityKeyList , new AifEndpointActionPolicyInfo(), new AifConstraintListCollection());

}

Hope this piece of information was useful...

Now try performing an outbound action and this time you will not observed the error J J J

Most of us would have used “Send Electronically” to send data as XML across Company (or) external systems. The common Actions/Services which are used to perform an Outbound action with Application Integration Framework are

v  findEntityKeyList

v  findList

v  read

v  readList

But do we know what is the Significance of read & findList action

“readChartOfAccounts” : If send electronically is triggered on ChartOfAccounts with the specified action/service you’ll observe the following error

This is because the “read” action is called on special cases like sending invoice, pickingList data. Sending electronic information as “SendXMLOriginal” or as “SendXMLDuplicate”.

If Send Electronically is:

Button type always use the “find” action.

MenuButton(MenuSendXML)type always use the “read” action.

For a given AxD if AxdSend class is implemented then “find” action is used.

Similarly if DefaultSendAction is used then use "read" action. This scenario is implemented in case of Table.

Hope this piece of information share was useful.