Question

We have trouble with keeping apart our different configurations. Allow me to explain with a little

Scenario:

Let’s say you have two AX projects, e.g. P and M, that both alter the ProdRouteJob table, calling methods in one of their own project specific classes.
You have all these classes on your developer machine, of course, and ProdRouteJob compiles fine, but for an installation on a new server, you don’t want to add stub classes for every non-installed project, do you? So you wrap these calls to project classes in something like

if( Global::isConfigurationkeyEnabled( <projectPConfKey> ) )  
     // call project P stuff

to encapsulate them cleanly. You declare configuration keys for all your projects, and you’re ready to go, right?

However, this throws an error if you haven’t installed project P on this machine, because its projectPConfKey is unknown. Now you could at every installation install configuration keys for all your projects, just to tell the server that there is such a thing as a projectPConfKey, but then all these ifs would evaluate to true…

In short: how do you include configuration keys in your project XPOs so that your code compiles, but at the same time so that some configuration keys are disabled from the start?

Or is there something totally basic that I’m missing here?

EDIT:

Consensus among the answers (thank you, demas; thank you, Mr. Kjeldsen) is that it’s impractical to attempt a more or less automatic client-side configuration via macros or configuration keys. Thus, when we are installing at the client, we will have to import the standard tables with our changes and manually take out all changes not pertinent to the current installation.

I am a bit at a loss which answer to accept, because demas answered the question I asked, while Mr. Kjeldsen answered the questions that arose in the comment conversation under demas’ answer. I shall, with apologies to Mr. Kjeldsen, mark demas’ answer as accepted.

Answer 1

if( Global::isConfigurationkeyEnabled( <projectPConfKey> ) ) 

This check works only execution time and when you compile code you get the error.

So you need create stub classes or compare objects when you import them on production server and import only changes of project M.

There is another one approach but I don’t have Axapta to check it. Try:

#if.never
someMissingCall();
#endif

But i’m not sure that it will works now.