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The New Dynamics AX Tip #1: Workspaces

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 probab...

A Beginners Guide To Writing And Publishing Online Seminar – December 21, 2015,12:00 PM ET

Last month I held an online seminar on A Beginners Guide To Writing And Publishing Visual Walkthrough Guides where I walked through the process that I use to publish my books, and also how to repurpose the content into other formats for blogs and presentations. And from the feedback that I got I think I succeeded in kick starting some other experts writing projects.

That seminar didn’t give many people much in the way of advance notice (I think it was just 5 days) so I wanted to give everyon...

A Beginners Guide To Writing And Publishing Online Seminar – November 30, 2015, 2PM ET

I just thought that I would drop you all a note to say that I have set a date and a time for the first one and that is next Monday, November 30th, at 2pm Eastern Time (UTC-5). I realize that this is short notice, and this may not be the best time for everyone, and if this session is successful then I will try to hold another one next month, so if you can’t make it then I will understand.

For the on-line seminar where we will walk you through all of these steps in real time. In addition to sh...

A Beginners Guide To Writing and Publishing Book Now Available

Last week I mentioned that I am planning to hold an on-line seminar to teach anyone who is interested how I plan out, write and publish books so that maybe some of you all might be able to follow the process that I work through and become published authors as well.

The response was great and I received more RSVP’s than my current GoToMeeting account can handle – don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining – so now I am trying to find a couple of dates and times that will fit with everybody’s tim...

Who Wants To Learn How To Write and Self Publish on a Shoestring Budget?

I don’t know if you all have noticed, but over the past couple of years I have been able to publish a couple of books. They’re not the Da Vinci Code, but they do uncover a couple of secrets here and there.

The number one question that I get from people is “How do I write the books so quickly?”, and the second most common question is “When do you find the time to write the books?”

The answer is that I have fine-tuned the process of authoring walkthrough guides over the years and by creating...

Self Service Reporting In Dynamics AX 2012 Using Excel and Power BI Visual Walkthrough Guide Now Available

Having users perform their own reporting has been a dream on both sides of the organization. The IT group don’t particularly like creating reports for the users when they could be spending their time on cooler projects, and users don’t particularly like waiting for IT to create the reports that they need to track the data because it’s never quite what they wanted, and also takes so long to get (because of the first reason) that it’s usually out-of-date. If only there was a solution…

Well the...

New Vendor Onboarding Within Dynamics AX 2012

Built into Dynamics AX is a feature for managing the setup of new Vendors which allows users to request for new vendors to be added, for the purchasing group approval process by the way of workflows, and finally automatically create new vendor records.

This process is a great way to streamline the vendor setup process and is also a time saver because people are involved through the workflow process and all activities are tracked.

In this walkthrough we will show how the vendor on-boarding p...

Adding a Banner to the Dynamics AX 2012 Role Center

Role Centers are cool, but you don’t have to just personalize them with Dynamics AX information – you have a whole slew of standard SharePoint web parts that you can use to spice up the pages.

An example of something that you may want to do is add a banner image to the role center to display corporate banners or branding information. This is easy to do – all you need to do is create the banner image and then add it to your role center through the personalization.

If this sounds interesting...

Converting A PPT To Word Using VBA Macros

I was tinkering with an idea and thought that I would pass this on to you all just in case you could use it.

I create all of my walkthroughs and scripts in PPT (just in case I want to use them in presentations, and also they look tidy).

But if I want to use them as a blog post or create a white paper on them then I have to transfer all of the images and text by hand – the export as handouts does not export out the images and text in a way that they can be reformatted in Word.

So I looked arou...

An Unwillingness To Accept The Truth Does Not Make Those Who Have Liars

It’s happened to the best of people – Copernicus, Magellan, Scully & Mulder and now me. “What’s that?” I hear you ask. Well let me tell you the story…

Week before last I was at the AXUG (Dynamics AX User Group) Summit and to earn my keep I had 8 presentations and also a four hour training session that I gave titled “How To Implement Dynamics AX In An Afternoon” (which was actually scheduled for the morning slot but that is not what this story is about) where I planned to show how to start wit...