- Date effectiveness is a new feature in Dynamics AX 2012 allowing developers to easily create date range fields.
- Date ranges are used for defining record validity between the specified dates, for example, defining employee contract dates.
- This feature significantly reduces the amount of time that developers spend writing code and also provides a consistent approach to implement data range fields.
Note: > We will implement date range validation on the standard E-mail templates form.
> This Example(Data, Tables, Forms etc etc) is given on the base of Contoso Domain
> You ll also find an Xpo File To Download at the end of the example.
> While importing into your AOT it ll ask for replacing the existing one, you can replace it with the new table and form.
Procedure:
Property --> ValidTimeStateFieldType : Date
2. Notice the two new fields that are automatically added to the table :
3. Add the newly created ValidFrom and ValidTo fields to the existing emailIdIdx index
and change the properties shown in the following table:
4. The index should look similar to the following screenshot: