Fetch the Enum labels in SQL Statements

 When dealing with writing SQL Statements the Enum values and their corresponding names force us to write switch case statements which is time consuming. A shortcut for this method is as follows. 

There is already a table in the D365 Database called SRSANALYSISENUMS this table is used to store the D365 labels for use in the Datawarehouse cubes. By default all the tables that are part of any perspectives are populated in this table. However, for some of our enum we can explicitly populate this table and use the same in SQL. 

Create the following job to populate any given enum into the SRSANALYSISENUMS table. 

    public static void main(Args _args)
    {
        SRSAnalysisEnums analysisEnums;
        DictEnum currentEnum;
        str currentEnumName;
        int valueCount;
        str enumItemName;
        int enumItemValue;
        RecordInsertList records;
        Dialog dialog;
        DialogField  dfEnumName;

        dialog = new Dialog("Please enter the enum name");
        dfEnumName = dialog.addField(extendedTypeStr("Name"));
        dfEnumName.label("Enum name");
        if (dialog.run())
        {
            records = new RecordInsertList(tablenum(SRSAnalysisEnums));
         
            currentEnumName = dfEnumName.value();
            currentEnum = new DictEnum(enumName2Id(currentEnumName));
            if(currentEnum == null)
            {
                throw error(strfmt("Enum with name %1 does not exists.",currentEnumName));
            }
            valueCount = currentEnum.values();
            ttsbegin;
            delete_from analysisEnums where analysisEnums.EnumName == currentEnum.name();
            for(int j = 0; j < valueCount; j++)
            {
                enumItemName = currentEnum.index2Symbol(j);
                enumItemValue = currentEnum.index2Value(j);
             
                select firstfast forupdate EnumName, EnumItemName, EnumItemValue
                from analysisEnums where analysisEnums.EnumName == currentEnum.name() && analysisEnums.EnumItemValue == enumItemValue;

                if (analysisEnums)
                {
                    if (analysisEnums.EnumItemName != enumItemName)
                    {
                        analysisEnums.EnumItemName  = enumItemName;
                        analysisEnums.update();
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    analysisEnums.EnumName      = currentEnum.name();
                    analysisEnums.EnumItemName  = enumItemName;
                    analysisEnums.EnumItemValue = enumItemValue;
                 
                    records.add(analysisEnums);
                }
            }
            records.insertDatabase();
            ttscommit;

            Info("Completed");
        }
    }

 

Once this job is created and compiled we can run this class for each Enum that we want to be populated. To run the class from the url use the following syntax: 

https://ds-dev-7658e683048e57b40devaos.cloudax.dynamics.com/?cmp=ds01&mi=SysClassRunner&Cls=SRSAnalysisEnumsGenerator

In the above URL the servername and cmp parameter should be replaced to match your environment.