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May 24, 2014
New Release of Dynamics AX == New Company For My Demos
The Orion Foundation Now Runs Dynamics AX
May 23, 2014
Dynamics R3 On Azure Hosting Is Great But On goERPcloud Is Just Tool Cool For School
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a hundred times. People always want to get access to a demonstration version of Dynamics AX that they can test drive. There is something very special about being able to work through scenario yourself. I guess ERP is just like a car, in that you need to get behind the wheel rather than be chauffeured. The problem is that in the past, this involved setting up a new server, configuring the software, and also getting the test system licensed with Microsoft wh...
Create Filtered Alerts To Sniff Out The Data You Really Want
Originally posted on Dynamics AX Tip Of The Day:
Alerts are a great feature within Dynamics AX because they allow you to watch any information that you are interested in and then get alerts when the information is changed or updated. This is great for when you need status updates but are too busy (or lazy) to go into the list pages and look for yourself. But alerts are a double edged sword. If you are not careful you can end up spamming yourself. Having too much information being sent to you...
May 22, 2014
Add Flair To Your Forms With Achievements
Originally posted on Dynamics AX Tip Of The Day:
Achievements are everywhere you look. You can get them for checking into your favorite restaurant through Foursquare, you can get them for writing code within Visual Studio, and you can definitely get them on any game that you play on your phone. So why not add them to your Dynamics AX forms so that you can add a little pizazz to day.
In the immortal words of Stan… I need to talk about your flair.
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May 21, 2014
Control Price Adjustments On Sales Orders
Originally posted on Dynamics AX Tip Of The Day:
You probably spend a lot of time trying to set up your pricing within Dynamics AX so that it is just right, and then the salespeople come along and just change it willey nilley as they are taking the sales orders. If a price change feels like a needle piercing your heart then don’t worry, you can turn off the ability for the users to be able to update the price that you have set up, or at the very least, turn on reason codes so that when a pric...
May 20, 2014
Use Pricing Models Within Configured Products To Calculate Prices Without A BOM
Originally posted on Dynamics AX Tip Of The Day:
The Product Configurator within Dynamics AX is very cool and is a great way to capture options during the sales and quoting process. You don’t have to go whole hog with it though and have it build BOM’s and Routes in order to have it help you during the sales cycle in quoting prices though. The Product Configurator has a built in Price Modeler feature that allows you to design a price build up based on your configuration attributes, and then ca...
May 19, 2014
Dynamics AX 2012 Companion Guide – Configuring Financial Approvals & Workflows Within Dynamics AX 2012 Is Available
A couple of weeks ago I did a webinar for MS Dynamics World titled “Microsoft Dynamics AX workflows for financial automation: Improving process efficiency with ease” which you can view if you like by following this link:
While I was preparing for the webcast, I created a storyboard of everything that I was going to show, which I thought may be a great reference for everyone,...
Creating Azure Cloud Hosted Environments Through Lifecycle Services
Originally posted on Dynamics AX Tip Of The Day:
Lifecycle Services is the one-stop-shop for you as a partner, a prospective customer, and also a fully-fledged Dynamics AX user because it is chock full of tools that you can use to make your life so much easier. One of these tools is the Cloud Hosted Environment feature that will create a Dynamics AX environment for you that is hosted through the Azure services within a couple of minutes – give and take 30 for the machine to be deployed. Using...
May 16, 2014
Make Users Feel Special By Creating New Role Centers For Their Unique Roles
Originally posted on Dynamics AX Tip Of The Day:
Dynamics AX comes pre-packaged with over 40 standard role centers for a lot of the normal user types that you would expect to see within an organization – CFO, Salesperson, AP Clerk, etc. Chances are though you probably have roles within your organization that don’t quite fit into those roles. You can either try to assign those users to one of the roles that most closely fits, or you can just create a new role centers especially for those users...
May 15, 2014
Split Your Number Sequences To Make Them Look Intelligent
Originally posted on Dynamics AX Tip Of The Day:
The
Number Sequences
within
Dynamics AX
are great because they allow you to add a lot of intelligence to your document and transaction numbering. You can add constants to them so that you can quickly see where they came from and sort though them. But it doesn’t stop there. If you have incorporated some logic into how you are actually numbering the records, then you can split the number up itself so that even though it’s still continuous, there...
