{"id":328,"date":"2015-06-23T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T13:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exploreax.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2015-06-23T13:20:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T13:20:47","slug":"advanced-aot-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.exploreax.com\/blog\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/advanced-aot-searching\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced AOT searching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its always a great opportunity to interact with other AX developers and have the opportunity to learn from each other. A few weeks ago I published a blog post on searching the AX AOT in code for objects with specific properties<\/a>,\u00a0after the post went out I got a comment on the post of\u00a0a much easier way to search the AOT from the frontend, that for some reason I have never really noticed before. So here is a quick way to do an advanced search of the AOT using a real situation I encountered this morning.<\/p>\n

Example: Find all privileges in the AOT that have a specific menuitem as an entry point. e.g. “PurchFormLetter_PackingSlip”<\/p>\n

1. Open an AOT and select the section of the AOT that you wish to search. Obviously the narrower the search the quicker it will be. I selected Security->Privileges.
\n2. Right click on the object. Click Find
\n\"Find\"<\/a>
\n3. Select “All Nodes” in the search dropdown
\n\"Search_All_nodes\"<\/a>
\n4. Select properties tab.
\n5. Right click on any field in the “Property” Column, Click filter by field.
\n\"FilterByField\"
\n<\/a>6. Enter the name<\/strong> of the property you wish to search on. In my case I’m looking for all entry points that points that have the ObjectName set to\u00a0PurchFormLetter_PackingSlip, so i enter “ObjectName”
\n\"SelectProperty\"<\/a>
\n7. Click Ok.
\n8. Click the “Selected” checkbox
\n9. Enter the value you want to search for under “Range” e.g. “PurchFormLetter_PackingSlip”
\n\"SelectProperty2\"<\/a>10. Repeat steps 5-9 if you want to search for multiple properties.
\n11. Click Find now
\n12. You will now have a list of all the subobjects of whatever you selected in step 1 containing a specific property with a specific value.
\n\"FindResults\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Note 1: You can also do some pretty neat searches using both the date and advanced tabs on this form so be sure to check them out too.<\/p>\n

I hope this helps somebody who like me has just overlooked this for years.<\/p>\n

Thanks Martin <\/a>for the tip!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Disclaimer: For my specific example it may have been easier to use either the Security development tool or right click on the menu-item in AX -> Add-ins -> Security Tools -> View related security objects. But I needed an example for this post \ud83d\ude42
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