Hi Everyone, As you know Acumatica supports Snapshot functionality to copy, migrate, backup and restore data between one or multiple instance of Acumatica. Using snapshots you even can migrate data between different database types (Cloud, Microsoft Sql Serve, MySql). You can get more about snapshots from this video – Acumatica Snapshot on YouTube When you creating snapshot, system will go through all database tables, select appropriate data and put it into separate tenant (with negative tenant id, which is actually linked to original tenant by id number). You can define what data will selected from the database, by defining Export mode: Snapshots is database level technology that knows nothing about business logic and… Read more
Month: November 2015
How to Generate a new DAC for Custom Table or View
Hi Everyone, In Acumatica 5.2 we have a very nice feature where you can generate a Data Access class from the table definition just from Customization Browser UI. To do this, go to the Customization Manager, open code section and create a new code file of type IBqlTable. If you specify a name of existing table, system will automatically load a definition for all fields from database. IBqlTable is required interface for all data access classes in Acumatica. System will use it as a flag to understand what name should be used for table during SQL generation. When you click OK, system will analyze table structure and generate new DAC with all fields and appropriate attributes.… Read more
Add a Custom Popup Panel
Hi Everyone, Today I want to share with you some practices how you can do iteration with user from Acumatica business logic code. In general: You can ask some simple question with strait forward answer, like: “Do you really want to delete this record? Yes/No” You can use redirection feature to redirect user to some hidden screen, where he will do some additional configuration and processing.You can hide screen by putting it into the hiden folder of Acumatica sitemap. When screen is hidden user can access it only with redirection from some other screen. But if you want to do more interactive dialog with user you may need use popup dialog with smart… Read more
First Chance Exception Log in Acumatica
Hi Everyone, Acumatica has very powerful feature to catch and logging all exceptions that that has been thrown inside the system and application code. You are able to activate it in the Application Settings section of web.config file. <add key=”EnableFirstChanceExceptionsLogging” value=”false” /> <add key=”FirstChanceExceptionsLogFileName” value=”firstchanceexceptions.log” /> If you do not change the file name, it will be available by this path: “<SiteFolder>App_Datafirstchanceexceptions.log” This log can help a lot if you get any error without stack trace, or when you getting any problem without any information in the UI. Also this log can be very useful for Acumatica support team. You need to understand that using this mechanism you will catch all exception… Read more
Context Scopes in Acumatica
Hi Everyone, During developing on Acumatica, you may face some restriction, from the platform side, for example: You can select data only according to current user rights – if user does not have access to branch, there is no way to get data related to another branch. There is restriction to read data just from current tenant, now way to get consolidated data by several tenants. You are not able to read deleted data. You can read data just within one connection to database. All these stuff and some more is configuration of the platform. To give you ability to control these behavior Acumatica has a set of internal classes “Scopes”. When… Read more
Union Selects in BQL
Hi Everyone, Sometimes you want to select and combine data from different tables in database. There is no standard way to do it in BQL, but we can go with several workarounds: Create a SQL server view. In this case you just create a view on SQL Server side with selecting, calculating and combining all data into one big select. After this you can create/generate a DAC that will be associated to the view. In the code you can easily use new data access class as you wish. System will always generate selects to SQL server view as it is normal table. Use data view delegate, where you can execute several selects to database. When you have received… Read more
Custom Images to Login Page
Hi Everyone, Do you want to customize login screen to see custom images that are related to your own company? No problem, just put it into the Images folder (C:Program Files (x86)Acumatica ERP<Your Site Name>Icons) with the specific name pattern (login_bg<Number>.jpg). Note that you can use many different images types, not only jpg. For example, dynamic .gif file can be super nice there. Check this link: Cinemagraph Have a nice setup.
Add Custom Field to Full-Text (Universal) Search
Hi Everyone, Sometime you need to do some customization to meet customer requirements. One of these requirements can be an additional field where they can store some references to other systems/documents. But when you have a reference you have to search it in the system. Here I will guide you, how to customize Acumatica to be able to search additional fields. The main thing that we have to customize here is PXSearchableAttribute, which always have to be defined on NoteID field (you know that NoteID is main and unique reference to any row in the Acumatica database). IF you can check the code of this attribute you can see: The main things here are first 4… Read more