What is Microsoft Cloud for Retail?
Industry clouds have been a major focus area for Microsoft. The recent announcement from Microsoft on the General Availability of Microsoft cloud for financial services was much anticipated. In this...
View ArticleCoding Code – Security role creator – II
Here is a variation of code that creates a duplicate of all standard roles and removes the human resources related duties from these duplicated roles. static void...
View ArticleCoding code – Security role creater
Recently tasked with a mundane coding activity to create security roles based on a bunch of standard roles, i came up with a simple x++ code to help me in this activity or maybe just something to keep...
View ArticleCreate a lookup for Financial dimension values
Sometimes there is a requirement to create a new field on a table that should be populated from a custom financial dimension values. And you want to show a lookup on the data entry form for this field...
View ArticlePlaying Peekaboo with AX modules
Have you ever had a need to hide a few of your modules from all users/or a few users? Alternative you wanted to show only a few modules to all your users? To achieve this there are 2 options. 1. For...
View ArticleA flight plan for TMS in AX 2012 R3
One of the new modules in AX 2012 R3 is Transportation Management System (TMS). TMS allows us to shop for transportation rates based on mileage or weight for moving goods from point A to point B....
View ArticleOne AX Restore to go!
The key to learning new things in life is “A Need” but the success of learning depends on “Desire” and “Passion”. One of the challenges I was faced with recently was to restore the data from one AX...
View ArticleAX 2012 PowerShell script to export users and roles
If you are trying to migrate data from one of your development environment to another development environment, you would typically do this through a database restore. There are a number of parameters...
View ArticleAX 2012 Dev training presentations
I recently switched jobs and one of my responsibility is to build AX 2012 capability in the internal IT team. I am focusing on Dev I, II and III and as part of the weekly training I have prepared some...
View ArticleUnable to cast CustVendTransOpen to VendTransOpen at method CheckPWPEnabled
I was trying to create a general journal with vendor payments and settle open Vendor transactions. When the code was run manually it worked fine. However when we ran the job in a batch mode it failed...
View ArticlePost a custom field to VendTrans/CustTrans through journal
Here is the scenario You have added a custom field to your Customer/Vendor transactions table. You want to capture this field during the posting of a Customer/Vendor transaction from General Journal...
View ArticleHow to figure out if the current user is a collections agent?
In my previous post i had asked what does the following X++ code return? DirPartyRelationship::find(DirRelationshipTypeTable::findBySystemType(DirSystemRelationshipType::TeamMember).RecId,...
View ArticleWhat is the PartyId of the currently logged in user?
Most unimaginative title I could have come up with! But if it helps you find this page soon then it has served its purpose. So you know that curUserId() gives you current user and you want to know (for...
View ArticleAX 2012 – A peek at Address framework
Addresses in AX 2012 can get very tricky to understand. Here is my understanding of the framework after some research and SQL analysis. Here is a list of tables/views that make up the framework...
View ArticleAX 2012 – Technical Tips & Tricks
The idea is to build a comprehensive list of tips that could be used to handle day to day scenarios A. Get a lookup field to show up on a form For the lookup button to appear for a field on the form...
View ArticleMarkets – IV
It’s been way too long since I made a fool of myself guessing the stock market. So here it goes… Over the past 6 months we have seen US stock markets on a tear. S&P is up around 17% and DOW.. well...
View ArticleWired Network over Powerlines
I have a couple of Servers in my home that I use for development, hosting virtual machines. I terminal into these servers from my laptop frequently and do my development/testing. Recently I moved the...
View ArticleAspiring to be an AX Toreador (not Matador)
It seems a bit hypocritical of me to use the word Matador when i really hate bullfighting and the cruelty that goes with it. But what are we if we don’t push the limits on all that we live in. Living...
View ArticleThe German economic invasion?
Been a long time since i posted, mostly due to a very busy project schedule. But I just could not resist the eerie similarities between WW I, WW II and now. In all three cases Germany was somehow at...
View ArticleA dummy’s account of Accounting
Within a week on my first Dynamics AX (ERP) project I realized it is not hard to make a fool of oneself. Technically I am there. Have been reading up a lot about AX architecture and development...
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