Batch tasks show no operation progress - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog

Recently I coded an AX 2009 server bound batch job using AOT\Classes\tutorial_runbasebatch and wanted to show the progress of the job within the Batch tasks form.

I was using the common interfaces in RunBase and also RunBaseProgress and found that this is not increasing the Progress in the Batch tasks form. After a little troubleshooting I found that there have been some fixes implemented till Dynamics AX 2009 RU 5 and I noticed that all methods end up calling SysOperationProgressServer at some time and that there a boolean value is set to true by default.

public void new(int _numberOfBars = 1, boolean _bypass=true)
{

Bypass = _bypass;

if ( Bypass )
return;

Due to this the Progress is not updated at any time.

Solution 1:
So one way to get a progress successfully is to directly call SysOperationProgressServer and on calling the new method set Bypass to false. If you go for this way you might need to utilize Global::isRunningOnServer to understand if your code is running on the server or not.

Solution 2:
You could modify the methods new and construct in RunbaseProgress / new and construct in the following way.

Classes \ RunBaseProgress

public static RunbaseProgress construct(
    int                 _numOfBars = 1,
    FormBuildControl    _embedded   = null,
    Boolean ifOnSrvBypass = true
    )
{
    return new RunbaseProgress(_numOfBars,_embedded,ifOnSrvBypass);
}

void new(   int _numOfBars = 1,
            FormBuildControl _embedded = null,
            Boolean ifOnSrvBypass = true
            )
{
    if ( hasGUI() )
    {
        if (_embedded)
            oprProgressEmbedded = SysOperationProgressEmbedded::newGeneral(_embedded,_numOfBars);
        else
            oprProgress = new SysOperationProgress(_numOfBars);
    }
    else
    {
        // if no client is present, we can only use the SysProgress table to save progress info
        oprProgressServer = new SysOperationProgressServer(_numOfBars,ifOnSrvBypass);
    }
}

Similar modifications as above could be applied to RunBase \ progressInit to call construct from there in the right way.

–author:	Christian Wolf
–editor:	Christian Wolf
–date:	22-09-2010

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