Accessing Internet Information from Report Writer

Last week, I had a call from a partner asking how could they access data stored on the Internet Information window.

This is the window opened with the little italic i symbol next to the Address ID field for Company, Customer, Employee and Vendor Addresses as well as next to Employee ID and Salesperson ID fields.

The data for this window is stored in the coINetAddrs (SY01200) table and has eight (8) user defined fields and a text field. For Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010, the Email To, Email Cc, Email Bcc and Messenger Address fields were added to the window.  The prompts for the user defined fields are defined in the Company Setup window (Tools >> Setup >> Company >> Company >> Internet User Defined) and are stored in the coINetPrompts (SY04800) table.

 
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010: Internet Information window

The usual method to add data onto a report is to define a relationship to the table in question and then add it to the report.  However, as the primary key for the coINetAddrs (SY01200) table starts with a Master Type field which is a 3 character constant value which represents the type of data being stored. As it is not possible to add a constant value when defining a table relationship, it is not possible to attach this table to a report. 

The table below shows the values for the Master Type field:

Entity	Constant	Code
Company	CO_INETADDRS_COMPANY	CMP
Customer	CO_INETADDRS_CUSTOMER	CUS
Employee	CO_INETADDRS_EMPLOYEE	EMP
Item	CO_INETADDRS_ITEM	ITM
Salesperson	CO_INETADDRS_SALESPERSON	SLP
Vendor	CO_INETADDRS_VENDOR	VEN

So, to allow this data to be accessed, I added three Report Writer user defined functions (System series) to version 7.0 and later of Microsoft Dynamics GP.  Below are SDK entries from the RW_Func.doc document:

RW_GetInternetInfo
 
Module: 
System Manager

Series:
System      

Script type: 
Global function 

Form (If a form global): 

Category:  
Data Retrieval

Description:  
Returns Additional Internet Information fields 1 to 8 for the specified Master Type, Master ID and optional Address ID.

IN_MasterType should use the following values:-
 CMP = CO_INETADDRS_COMPANY
 VEN = CO_INETADDRS_VENDOR
 CUS = CO_INETADDRS_CUSTOMER
 EMP = CO_INETADDRS_EMPLOYEE
 ITM = CO_INETADDRS_ITEM
 SLP = CO_INETADDRS_SALESPERSON

IN_field must have a value between 1 and 8.

Prerequisites:  
none

Parameters:  
in string IN_MasterType.
in string IN_MasterID.
in string IN_AddressID.
in integer IN_field.

Return Value:
function returns string OUT_string.

RW_GetInternetPrompt
 
Module: 
System Manager

Series:
System      

Script type: 
Global function 

Form (If a form global): 

Category:  
Data Retrieval

Description:  
Returns Additional Internet Information prompts 1 to 8 for the current company.

IN_field must have a value between 1 and 8.

Prerequisites:  
none

Parameters:  
in integer IN_field.

Return Value:
function returns string OUT_string.

RW_GetInternetText
 
Module: 
System Manager

Series:
System      

Script type: 
Global function 

Form (If a form global): 

Category:  
Data Retrieval

Description:  
Returns Additional Internet Information Text field as strings of given length for the specified Master Type, Master ID and optional AddressID.

IN_MasterType should use the following values:-
 CMP = CO_INETADDRS_COMPANY
 VEN = CO_INETADDRS_VENDOR
 CUS = CO_INETADDRS_CUSTOMER
 EMP = CO_INETADDRS_EMPLOYEE
 ITM = CO_INETADDRS_ITEM
 SLP = CO_INETADDRS_SALESPERSON

Prerequisites:  
none

Parameters:  
in string IN_MasterType.  MasterType Code
in string IN_MasterID.   Master ID
in string IN_AddressID.   Optional Address ID
in integer IN_characters.  Number of Characters per Line
in integer IN_line.   Line Number to Return

Return Value:
function returns string OUT_string.

To use these Report Writer functions you need to create calculated fields using the User Defined functions in the System Series.  Below are examples of all 3 functions:

An example of using the RW_GetInternetPrompt() function return the text for the first prompt is:

An example of using the RW_GetInternetInfo() function return the value for the first field for the primary vendor address is:

Finally, an example of using the RW_GetInternetText() function to return 3 lines of 80 characters of the Text field for the same primary vendor address into 3 string calculated fields is:

With the use of these 3 functions you can pull the data from the Internet Information window onto your reports simply and easily. 

Note: At this stage the RW_GetInternetInfo() Report Writer does not support returning of the three Email Address and the Messenger Address fields. This issue has been logged as Problem Report 62880, if you want this functionality, please log a support case and reference this bug number.

For more information see the post: Using the built-in Report Writer Functions 

David

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