buf2buf to buf2bufByName in Ax2012

Hi Guys,

I would like to share an interesting blog post regarding buf2buf wherein you can also copy table buffer to another table in which field names are same as the same i.e table structure should be similar of both the tables.

We can create below method in the Global class:

//Modified method, copy data from one table to another table with similar structure

static void buf2BufByName(Common  _from, Common  _to)
{
    DictTable   dictTableFrom   = new DictTable(_from.TableId);
    DictTable   dictTableTo     = new DictTable(_to.TableId);
    DictField   dictFieldFrom;
    FieldId     fieldIdFrom     = dictTableFrom.fieldNext(0);
    FieldId     fieldIdTo
    ;


    while (fieldIdFrom && ! isSysId(fieldIdFrom))
    {
        dictFieldFrom   = new DictField(_from.TableId, fieldIdFrom);


        if(dictFieldFrom)
        {
            fieldIdTo = dictTableTo.fieldName2Id(dictFieldFrom.name());


            if(fieldIdTo)
                _to.(fieldIdTo) = _from.(fieldIdFrom);
        }


        fieldIdFrom = dictTableFrom.fieldNext(fieldIdFrom);
    }
}

Source: http://mybhat.blogspot.in/2012/07/dynamics-ax-buf2buf-and-buf2bufbyname.html