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March 14, 2016
We’ve Redesigned The Dynamics AX Companions eBook Store – Hip, hip, hooray!
Over the past couple of weeks we have been working on tidying up the Dynamics AX Companions eBook store (shop.dynamicsaxcompanions.com) in preparation for the merge of the store and the sister resource site (www.dynamicsaxcompanions.com) and I am happy to announce that we have made a little progress.
If you visit the eBook store (http://bit.ly/1ppjiA9) now you will see that all of the guides are a little more organized and also there is the ability to filter the guides by functional area, by...
March 10, 2016
The date 3/9/2016 will probably go down in history (in a good way)
The date of 3/9/2016 will probably go down in history along with other milestone dates in software engineering like 1/12/1997 and 4/19/2011 because, as you all may know, yesterday was the official release date of the new version of Dynamics AX.
Some of you all may know it by its full name of Microsoft Dynamics AX 7, but just like many other superstars out there like Cher, Madonna, and Sting it has dropped the last name and will forever be known as just Microsoft Dynamics AX. It didn’t go the...
February 26, 2016
Adding Filtered Queries as New Tiles on Workspaces within Dynamics AX
Workspaces are a great place to live within because they give you access to all of the key information that you may need all in one page. One of the new metaphors that are introduced with the Workspaces are the tiles which show up on the left hand side of the workspace and give you the ability to see a count of records that you may be working through and also allow you to quickly jump to the data by clicking on them.
The workspaces come pre-populated with a set of common tiles that you may w...
February 16, 2016
Revised and Expanded Edition of Configuring A Training Environment For Dynamics AX 2012 (BBCG #1) is now available
A few weeks ago I released out a new version of my Configuring a Training Environment for Dynamics AX 2012 guide to you which stepped you all through the process of provisioning a new training environment for Dynamics AX within Azure and also shows you how you can create the blank training partition which will be used as the base learning environment for all of the other books in the series.
Over the past week or so I have had the chance to expand out this guide by adding in a few new sectio...
January 29, 2016
The New Dynamics AX Tip #22: Filtering Lists
The New Dynamics AX is a big change from the previous releases. The majority of the changes are around the new web based user interface, the new way that you navigate around in the application and also new sets of tools that have come along for the ride.
For those of you that are familiar with the older user interfaces then you may have to learn a couple of new tricks to get around the system like the pro that you are, and for new users of the New Dynamics AX environments then you will proba...
Don’t forget to register now for the Microsoft Dynamics Technical Conference – February 23-25, 2016 in Seattle, WA
Hey all. Time is running out to register for the upcoming Microsoft Dynamics Technical Conference… a little bird told me that the event is nearly sold out!
If you are wanting to know about the newest Microsoft Dynamics AX release (formerly known as ‘AX 7’) then this is the place to be. You can see the product in action as this year’s event will provide partners and users with an exclusive opportunity to gain deep technical knowledge in three short days. If you want to get a jump on the crow...
January 28, 2016
A Beginners Guide To Blogging and Social Media Promotion (Author Workshop Guide #3) Now Available
As you all might have noticed, I blog a lot, and I think that blogging is something that everyone should do, especially if you are on the front lines of a product or technology and you are learning something before others are. There is no point in hoarding information away from others because in the end the knowledge will pass away with you and be lost to the world. Also, by blogging and sharing with others you will find that you will start to be recognized more as an expert in your field reg...
The New Dynamics AX Tip #21: Moving fields on forms
The New Dynamics AX is a big change from the previous releases. The majority of the changes are around the new web based user interface, the new way that you navigate around in the application and also new sets of tools that have come along for the ride.
For those of you that are familiar with the older user interfaces then you may have to learn a couple of new tricks to get around the system like the pro that you are, and for new users of the New Dynamics AX environments then you will pro...
January 27, 2016
The New Dynamics AX Tip #20: Adding additional fields to forms
The New Dynamics AX is a big change from the previous releases. The majority of the changes are around the new web based user interface, the new way that you navigate around in the application and also new sets of tools that have come along for the ride.
For those of you that are familiar with the older user interfaces then you may have to learn a couple of new tricks to get around the system like the pro that you are, and for new users of the New Dynamics AX environments then you will pro...
January 26, 2016
Creating Companion PowerPoint Presentations with Author Tools for PowerPoint
Writing walkthrough guides is easy. It’s the formatting of the content that will take you forever to do, especially of you are wanting to repurpose the content into other formats like scripts, blog posts, summaries and even books. And if you want to make a change to a guide, or correct mistakes then that can take just as much time because you might break some of the formatting, or pagination, or you may miss one of the formats. And if you wanted to have specific page breaks, formatting requi...
