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Dynamics AX 2012 – AIF: Expose AX functionality as a webservice
There might be situations where you want to integrate third party applications with Dynamics AX, either to query for some data or to save some data into AX. The way to do this in AX is to write...
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AX Models Overview
Below are a few older pre-release articles explaining Models in a very simple and clear way. In short You can use AxUtil command line utility to export, import and sign model files. Model files have...
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Markets – III
Its been a while since I talked about markets. S&P has been stuck range bound between 1100-1280 for sometime now. There are two opposing strings that are trying to move the markets. Positive news...
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AX 2012 – Modify configuration keys
System administration > Setup > Licensing > License configuration. –or– Open the Configuration form from the initialization checklist MSDN Article:...
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AX 2012 – Use CustCustomerService to create a customer record from within AX
How to create a customer record from within AX. (in a job or in a class method for eg) Following are all the variables you need to declare. CustCustomerService is the service reference and you create...
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AX 2012 – Import data using Excel Dynamics AX Add-in
I have not worked on AX 2009 but from what I gather import/export using excel was a very important activity. It was also used to do the initial data migration. However in AX 2012 it is not so easy...
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AX 2012 – AIF Standard Document Services
Standard document services are out of the box AIF services provided by Microsoft to work with business processes. Each service represents a different business process. You can look up a list of all the...
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A 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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The 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...
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Aspiring 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...
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Wired 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...
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Markets – 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...
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AX 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...
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AX 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...
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What 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...
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How 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,...
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Post 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...
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Unable 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...
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AX 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...
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AX 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...
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