Sunday, February 19, 2017

AX 2012 - TFS multiple workspaces

Hi All

AX 2012 support only a single TFS workspace that mean a Dynamics AX Developer Box (SQL Server, AOS, etc.) for each developer.

Many of us use a Shared AX Environment, so many Developers connected to the same Dynamics AX Environment. More details at Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 White Paper: Developing Solutions in a Shared AOS Development Environment

For this reason Martin DrĂ¡b created a custom Solution in order to help us to achieve this result, TFS workspaces in AX2012

This solution is fantastic.
The only issue is when an object is in check-out mode also other developers can modified it also if the check-in can only be handled by the check-out Owner.

In order to fix the behavior I have created a new method and modified another one in the SysVersionControlSystemFileBased Class.

Therefore:


Create a new method like “isCheckedOut” like this:

// AddaxWorkspaces
// Denis 20170219 - Check if the current Object is check-out by the current user
boolean isCheckedOut_dlx(Filename         _filenameCurrentLayer)
{
    Set                         checkedOutObjects = new Set(Types::String);
    SysVersionControlTmpItem    items;
    SysVersionControlSystem     sysVersionControlSystem;
    SysVersionControlParameters parameters = SysVersionControlParameters::find();

    str                         checkFileName;

    sysVersionControlSystem = SysVersionControlSystem::newType(parameters.vcsType);
    sysVersionControlSystem.init(parameters);

    if (sysVersionControlSystem)
    {
        items = sysVersionControlSystem.getCheckedOutItems();

        while select items
        {
            checkFileName = items.Filename;
            checkFileName = strReplace(checkFileName, parameters.AppRoot + '$\\' + parameters.TfsProject + "\\", "");

            if ( _filenameCurrentLayer == checkFileName )
                Return True;
        }

    }

    return false;
}

Modified the allowEdit method like this:

…..
        //Has the file been checked out
        if (!bitTest(WinAPI::getFileAttributes(filenameCurrentLayer), #FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY)
        &&  this.isCheckedOut_dlx(filenameCurrentLayer)       // Denis 20170219 - AddaxWorkspaces
           )
            return true;

Thanks again to Martin and Stay Tuned!


2 comments:

dynamics 365 for financials said...

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