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July 25, 2015
Free Prize – Download “An Introduction To Dynamics AX 2012” For Free While You Can
When you are first introduced to Dynamics AX, it may seem a little overwhelming because there is so much that it is able to do. It may seem like you’ve been dropped in a completely foreign land, unable to speak the language, and not knowing which direction to start walking in.
It may be even worse if you are in the middle of a software selection where you are looking at a number of different options (including Dynamics AX) because you need to understand what the differences are, and also reme...
Free Prize – Download “An Introduction To Dynamics AX 2012″ For Free While You Can
When you are first introduced to Dynamics AX, it may seem a little overwhelming because there is so much that it is able to do. It may seem like you’ve been dropped in a completely foreign land, unable to speak the language, and not knowing which direction to start walking in.
It may be even worse if you are in the middle of a software selection where you are looking at a number of different options (including Dynamics AX) because you need to understand what the differences are, and also reme...
July 18, 2015
The Dynamics AX Bare Bones Configuration Series is done – Get a copy for your Grandmother
Over the past year and a half I have been working on one of my largest personal projects that I have ever worked on, which has been to create a series of guides for Dynamics AX that show you how to set up a company from the ground up and configure all of the common modules that most people would need, and a few that you might want to use. The goal was to demystify the setup process and prove that Dynamics AX is only as hard to configure as you make it, and if you are a mid-range customer th...
July 1, 2015
Updating Dynamics AX Product Configurator Subcomponent Attributes Through Parent Calculations
Today I have been working with the Product Configurator within Dynamics AX trying to find the tidiest way to set up the following configuration scenario and as I did this I discovered some pretty cool things that you can do through the calculations.
The scenario is that I want to set up a Configuration Model with multiple pages or User Configurations, but the selection for one attribute on one page will affect the selections on another page.
For example: If the user selects a Wattage of 4000...
June 30, 2015
Configuring Sales Order Management Within Dynamics AX 2012 Now Available
I’m happy to say that I just finished the 10th book in the Bare Bones Configuration Guide series that I have been slaving over for the past year or so. This one lays the foundation for Sales Order Management within Dynamics AX, and it is now available for download or in print if you like. Here is a quick overview:
Configuring Sales Order Management Within Dynamics AX 2012
The Sales and Marketing area within Dynamics AX not only allows you to manage and track all of the customer contact infor...
June 29, 2015
Anyone can now Test, Pilot & Train on Dynamics AX through LCS and Azure
I was just tipped off today that anyone is able to sign up for LCS as long as they have a Windows Live account without having it linked to a customer or a partner account. I had to test it out myself and sure enough, if you go to lcs.dynamics.com then you can log in using your personal (unattached) Live ID.
Why should I care I hear you all say?
Because it means that anyone is able to deploy out a Dynamics AX Demo System in Azure to Test, to Pilot, and also to Train on. All that you have to do...
June 26, 2015
Automatically Running AX As The Administrator To Enable Advanced Mode Recordings In The Task Recorder
If you are using the new Task Recorder within Dynamics AX and are running it in Advanced mode then you may have noticed that you need to run the client as the administrator before you can record any task recordings. If you are like me, you never go to the trouble of starting AX in that mode, which means that when you try to record a task you get the following reminder and you then have to exit AX restart the client in Administrator mode.
Stop the insanity! Here is a quick trick that you ca...
Changing Your Blog Account Names within Word to Make Them Easier To Track
I use Word to post all of my blogs because it does all of the work for me. It formats the blog, it uploads all of the images, it slices, it dices and more.
One problem though is that if you host multiple blogs on the same blog site – like I do with WordPress, then when you register them with Word, it just uses your username as the description for the blog, and not the bog name. Every time I post a blog I am always making sure that I am posting it to the right blog site. There is nothing more...
Fixing Problem Web Parts that cause Unhandled Errors when Customizing Role Centers
Has this ever happened to you?
There you are, just minding my own business, creating new role center, and you add in a new web part…
And then you click refresh and you get a little error that pops up and you think that your role center is completely corrupted…
Well, it’s happened to me enough that I thought that I needed to share a note on how to fix it.
The problem is that the web part – usually a User Control webpart is corrupted and needs to be removed from the page before it will start...
June 24, 2015
Creating a Secure Multi-Student Training Environment for Dynamics AX on a Shoestring Budget
One project that I have been working on recently is how to set up a simple training environment for Dynamics AX that multiple students are able to connect to at the same time, without stepping on each other’s toes, or even knowing that the other students are there. The other day I was able to devise a possible solution and I thought that I would share it with everybody just in case you all were wanting to set up your own shoestring budget bare bones configuration training environments.
How T...
