DIXF – Error when viewing target mapping
Issue : An issue comes up today when a client could not open “View target mapping”. This is R2 CU7. The stack trace error is shown like below “Field ‘Position’ in table ‘DMFTargetXMLToEntityMap’...
View ArticleAdding an ActionPane from code in EP page
I am not sure if you are a fan of adding the ActionPane control from code or directly in the EP page definition - I can see for both arguments of pro and con, but lately I am using the first approach...
View ArticleDAX 2012 R3 CU9 – new Retail pricing simulator
In the newest cumulative update for DAX, Microsoft have included a Pricing simulator: Now you can “simulate” a retail POS sale in AX, and see how prices are calculated in CRT, and uses a new class to...
View ArticleGo-Live is Coming Soon – What to Expect and Steps to Prepare
It has been months working on the project, first with a kick-off meeting with your project team, then numerous meetings of how to process, configure, and utilize the system. You gathered data, helped...
View ArticleUsing the Tiered Charges functionality for Sales Orders in Microsoft Dynamics...
This content covers setting up and using sales order auto charges, where the auto charges are based on the total amount of the sales order. Assume that there is a business requirement of applying auto...
View ArticleMES / Shop Floor Job Registration screen exit keys.
If you are playing with the manufacturing job registration screen in AX a key combination that you might want to remember is the CTRL+Q keys. If you press these together then you can close down the...
View ArticleFormer AXUG Director Frank Vukovits Joins Fastpath, Reflects on Evolution of...
Frank Vukovits departed his role with AXUG and parent organization Dynamic Communities (DCI) last week, but he won't be going too far. He has taken a new role as Vice President of Strategic...
View ArticlePaying a customer their balance
Sometimes you might get into a situation where you owe a customer money. For example if they mistakenly overpay their account or the combination of orders, returns, credits means the customer ends up...
View ArticleUpdate posting profile with new sales account
In AX the GL account selection when you post documents usually comes from a posting profile. The posting profiles can work on an table which is a specific association, group based on the group the...
View ArticleNew in R3 CU9 – Display a list of open work on the mobile device
CU9 for Dynamics AX 2012 R3 was released last week. It contains a good number of fixes , more than a dozen of which I really need for AX implementations I am involved in. But it feels to me that,...
View ArticleBob Scott’s Insights Top 100 VARs List for 2015 Includes 29 ERP Software Blog...
Twenty-nine of our own ERP Software Blog contributing members are listed in Bob Scott’s Top 100 VARs for 2015 list compiled by industry expert Bob Scott and published on the Bob Scott’s Insights...
View ArticleBob Scott’s Insights Top100 VARs List for 2015 Includes 29 ERP Software Blog...
Twenty-nine of our own ERP Software Blog contributing members are listed in Bob Scott’s Top 100 VARs for 2015 list compiled by industry expert Bob Scott and published on the Bob Scott’s Insights...
View ArticleAnnouncing Cumulative Update 9 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3
Microsoft released the new cumulative update for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, named Cumulative Update 9 (KB2998197). The version number of this release is 6.3.2000.326. It has not been announced...
View ArticleAX Source Code Quality: Top 10 X++ Coding Commandments 1.0
Hello AX Word, This time I came up with an idea to list top 10 coding guidelines. We would all write a better code if we followed them. You shall use a proper case for X++ code: start variables,...
View ArticleCommon building blocks in EP pages
I always find myself in the position to go and gather all the basic blocks of code necessary (more or less) in a EP web page from other already written pages. Of course, for this purpose, you can try...
View ArticleAX2012 code editing – tabs
Often we cut and paste code from one method to another during our development. This often results in blocks of code with the incorrect indenting, which while does not make the code function any...
View ArticleMobile BI Solutions: Leveraging Mobility to Make Better Business Decisions
Imagine having information you needed to make an important business decision right at your fingertips. You don’t have to think very hard about it – such a thing is possible, thanks to business...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics Moves to Cloud and Enterprise, Kirill Tatarinov Out in...
In a major restructuring of his executive team, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced a range of changes today. Kirill Tatarinov is departing as the leader of MBS as the Dynamics product line moves...
View ArticleMass loading items into AX2012
When you need to import large numbers of item records into AX2012 you will find the time it takes to load them fairly slow. In my example I have 200,000 records to load. First I need to create the...
View ArticleAX2012 R3 CU9 release
The CU9 release for AX2012 R3 was released last week. Here are a few links to some articles to read up more. The Lifecycle Services download and updater is here as well as a download for the...
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