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Leave a comment Posted on February 13, 2018 AX2012, Client, Dynamics AX, Quick Tips, SSRS, X++

Prevent AX Reports from Auto-Sending via Outlook Email

Requirement: When choosing email as the report destination in, allow the user to edit the email contents in Outlook rather than automatically sending.

A number of users have been concerned that outlook automatically sends email destination reports, rather than allowing them to first modify or verify the email, subject and addresses in a “new email” window.

Solution: To fix this you can modify the “SRSReportRunMailer.emailReport” method. Depending on your version of AX, modify the section around line 41 as below.

result = inetMailer.sendMailAttach(_emailContract.parmTo(),
                                  _emailContract.parmCc(),
                                  _emailContract.parmSubject(),
                                  _emailContract.parmBody(),
                                   true, /* Ensure dialog is shown */
                                  //original false, /* do not show dialog*/
                                  _attachmentPath);

Leave a comment Posted on September 2, 2015September 3, 2015 AX2012, Dynamics AX, Environment Management, SQL Scripts, SSRS

AX DB Restore Scripts #1 – SSRS Servers

Yesterday I started a series of posts on DB restore scripts for Dynamics AX by providing a list of data entities in your AX database that should be updated when restoring from one environment to another.

Today I will start drilling into the details of each of these items starting with SSRS (SQL Server reporting services) configurations.

In the Dynamics AX 2012 client these configurations are located under System Administration -> Setup -> Business Intelligence -> Reporting Services -> Report Servers.

Depending on the configuration of your source system (e.g. Production) you may have multiple servers setup here and typically your destination would only have a single server (Development) therefore your script would need to do the following

1. Remove all but one of the SSRS configurations
2. Update the remaining one to be default and update the relevant data fields.

The following SQL code will accomplish the above. I have parameterised the SQL for easier reuse or adjustment.

Declare @AOS varchar(30) = '[AOSID]' --must be in the format '01@SEVERNAME'
Declare @REPORTINSTANCE varchar(50) = 'AX'
Declare @REPORTMANAGERURL varchar(100) = 'http://[DESTINATIONSERVERNAME]/Reports_AX'
Declare @REPORTSERVERURL varchar(100) = 'http://[DESTINATIONSERVERNAME]/ReportServer_AX'
Declare @REPORTCONFIGURATIONID varchar(100) = '[UNIQUECONFIGID]'
Declare @REPORTSERVERID varchar(15) = '[DESTINATIONSERVERNAME]'
Declare @REPORTFOLDER varchar(20) = 'DynamicsAX'
Declare @REPORTDESCRIPTION varchar(30) = 'Dev SSRS';

delete from SRSSERVERS where RecId not in (select min(recId) from SRSSERVERS)
update SRSSERVERS set 
    SERVERID=@REPORTSERVERID, 
    SERVERURL=@REPORTSERVERURL, 
    AXAPTAREPORTFOLDER=@REPORTFOLDER,
    REPORTMANAGERURL=@REPORTMANAGERURL, 
    SERVERINSTANCE=@REPORTINSTANCE, 
    AOSID=@AOS,
    CONFIGURATIONID=@REPORTCONFIGURATIONID, 
    DESCRIPTION=@REPORTDESCRIPTION
where SERVERID != @REPORTSERVERID -- Optional if you want to see the "affected row count" after execution.

Note: These changes assume everything is setup correctly on the SSRS side.

View next – AX DB Restore Scripts #2 – SSAS Servers

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Leave a comment Posted on August 20, 2015 AX2012, Dynamics AX, Role Centers, SSRS

Role Centers / Analysis Services: Report Server (AX) cannot load the AXADOMD extension.

Let me say at the outset that I am very new to Dynamics AX role centers and analysis services and really have a lot to learn. However I thought I would share the following problem with setting up role centers and the associated solution that I found.

Problem description: After installing role centers on AX2012 RTM CU 3 with SQL Server 2012 the following error is displayed “An attempt has been made to use a data extension ‘AXADOMD’ that is either not registered for this report server or is not supported in this edition of Reporting Services. (rsDataExtensionNotFound)”

The Event log on the SSRS machine says the following: Role Centers / Analysis Services: Report Server (AX) cannot load the AXADOMD extension.

Problem resolution / investigation: After chasing my tail on this one for quite a while (including multiple re-installation etc) trying to figure out why the “AXADOMD” SSRS datasource extension was not installed I discovered that the problem did not lie with “AXADOMD” being missing but rather it might be having issues when it was loading.

Looking at the SSRS log files (C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS11.AX\Reporting Services\LogFiles) I discovered the following message:

ERROR: Exception caught instantiating AXADOMD report server extension: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. —> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
File name: ‘Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91’
at Microsoft.Dynamics.Framework.Reports.AxAdomdConnection..ctor()

This lead me to think something might be wrong with the Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient itself despite the AX installation validation showing up that it was installed already.

Paying a quick visit to C:\Windows\Assembly revealed that only AdomdClient version 11.0.0.0 was installed

The simple solution to this issue was to install the 10.0.0.0 client from http://www.microsoft.com/en-za/download/details.aspx?id=23089 after which SSRS no longer complained.

I hope this saves somebody some of the hassle and time that I have spent on figuring this one out.

Leave a comment Posted on August 14, 2014 AX2012, Dynamics AX, SSRS, X++

The client cannot download the services metadata from…

Problem / Symptoms: You receive the following message whenever running code or services running in CIL: The client cannot download the services metadata from http://[SERVERNAME]:8101/DynamicsAx/Services/AxClient?wsdl. The metadata address of the AOS services is incorrect or the AOS services are down. Please contact your system administrator.

Description: When running code in CIL (e.g. Services, batch jobs, Reports etc) you may receive the above error message. The cause of this problem could be multiple, but it basically means that the AOS or client cannot connect to the AX2012 services for one reason or another.

Resolution: This could possibly be a DNS or some networking failure that you can test by trying to ping the the server that the services run on and resolving the issue as needed.

In our specific case, we experienced an issue that is probably very rare, we have a proxy server configured on the AOS server’s Internet options. However the “Bypass proxy server for local addresses” was not selected, therefore the server could not even access services located on itself. To resolve:

Open Internet Explorer on the AOS.
Click on the settings icon
Click Internet Options
Select Connections
Click “Lan Settings”
Ensure the “Bypass proxy server for local addresses” is checked
Close all screens
Restart AX client and run your code again.

Leave a comment Posted on July 22, 2014December 8, 2014 AX2012, SSRS, X++

SSRS Report and Viewer Not displaying in AX2012 R2.

Problem / Symptoms: SSRS Reports executed from code under limited security permissions are not displaying in AX2012 R2 or above.

Description: When running an SSRS Report that is being kicked off via code from a user role with limited security permissions, neither the report nor the report viewer is displayed. No error messages are presented. Under elevated (admin) permissions the reports are displayed. The same user is able to execute normal reports via menu-items.

The debugger will fail in class: SRSReportRun.constructReportSettings on the line settings.SetWebServiceUrl(serverConfig.serverId(), serverConfig.reportServerURL());

Solution: I wasn’t able to find any specific security permissions linked to this error that would fix the security role, however I did discover that AX seems to have deprecated the use of the SRSReportRun class in favour of the SRSReportRunController class.

Old Code:

SrsReportRun srsReportRun;
srsReportRun = new SrsReportRun (‘MyReport.ReportDesign1’);
srsReportRun.init();
srsReportRun.executeReport();

New Code

SrsReportRunController controller;
controller = new SrsReportRunController();
controller.parmReportName(‘MyReport.ReportDesign1’);
controller.runReport();

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