Expose AX 2012 AIF services (SOAP) as RESTful web services
A colleague of mine Fabio Filardi has published his work on Github. It has two samples for the Expense services and UserSession services. He has documented it really well. Get onto it if you are going...
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AX 2012 R3 Entity Store
Recently there was a release of the entity store for AX 2012 R3. This is a great tool that makes data warehousing simple and close to real time. Traditionally with a data warehouse, you would have to...
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Hide dimension attribute using XDS [AX 2012]
This was something I had a look at recently. I had to hide certain dimension for specific security roles. I won’t go into the details of why as that is another longer conversation.This can be achieved...
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Tip of the day: Set up one environment at a time on LCS
When setting up new environments on LCS, always try to set up one at a time. This is so that you have a bit more control over your environments.Here below I have set up a Developer and a Build VM in...
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Tax calculation on Net amount - Gotcha
In AX you have various ways of calculating tax. The one that is most confusing is calculating on the Net amount. I thought I would show a few examples where you can get caught on this.Notice below an...
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Create a new partition [AX 7]
This is a deprecated feature but still works for simple testing. I used it mainly to test importing of configurations in a new clean environment.To create a new partition, you must put the form name at...
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Additional posting layer in journal names [AX7]
This was a nice find the other day. AX7 has introduced additional posting layers to the enum. This is great for financial reporting. It might seem like a small thing but the fact that it flows through...
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Exchange rate providers using OANDA
This was done for a number of customers but it is good to see it standard in AX7.Friday spotlight goes to …Until next time. I have some exciting blog post ideas but trying to find the time.
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Azure AD in new Portal
The #AzureAD admin experience in the new Azure portal is now in public preview!I thought I would give it a try out with the AX7 by registring the native application on Azure AD.See wiki and search half...
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Azure Logic with AX–callable endpoint
There are lots of ways to work with Azure Logic. This will be my first of many hopefully to show you how you can use Azure Logic with AX.Have a read of this post from the Azure Logic team first. It...
View ArticleAX calling Microsoft Flow
This is a continuation from the previous post. In the previous post, I wrote about using Azure Logic (big brother of Flow).This is just to let you know that Microsoft Flow has released the Request...
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Payment advice in AX7
Payment advice has now been added to the Print management setup now. This is a nice addition.New button under the payment journal lines form. Payment advice button is only enabled if the Payment status...
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Schedule Azure machines on and off
I friend of mine recommended this cool tool for scheduling machines on Azure. This is really good for saving Azure credit. You can schedule to turn on a machine before you start work and turn it off...
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Change password of web config file [AX 7]
It is good practice to change the Administrator password. You might want to be extra secure and also change the other accounts (service accounts).You will notice that the web config file is encrypted...
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Install an application x++ hotfix [AX7]
Microsoft has document this well on the wiki but can be confusing for first time. Also, things are improving and sometimes hard to keep up.This is what you see on LCS when updates are available.This...
View ArticleReferencing a form control [AX7]
I am seeing this a lot more these days because of extensions in AX7. You tend to take the form run in the event and try to get a form control.A lot of developers seem to be hard coding the control...
View ArticleRight click context in AX7
In previous versions we had the ability to override showContextMenu to achieve right click in various controls..This used have pop the menu and wait for a user response to continue. This concept of...
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AX 7 Working with Version control
This is the landing page for setting up your development environment with version control. https://ax.help.dynamics.com/en/wiki/using-development-tools-in-ax7/This is relatively easy and setting up a...
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Part 1–Create an Azure IoT Hub and Device
This is not AX but this was a nice experience. I worked through some labs to interact with Azure IoT Hub.There is a lot of information out there on the web. So, I will focus on the the IoT Hub only...
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Dynamics 365 for Operations mobile platform–Part 1
This is my first attempt at the mobile solution. Here are some findings.I downloaded the Android version which you can download from the Play Store.Have a read of the wiki site. It is well...
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