New Microsoft Dynamics AX – A guide for using retail sales prices and discounts
This is a guide I have been looking forward to publish, but due to the NDA restrictions I needed to wait until the new Dynamics AX was made public preview, and today it is J This blogpost is not about...
View ArticleNew AX (aka ’7’), limited navigation and the WHSWorkExecute
When opening the new Dynamics AX client, you see that we have a nice set of navigation menus and options in the top of the screen.But if you would like to limit the navigation options for the user, try...
View ArticleAccess Dynamics AX (aka ‘7’) performance counters with “&debug=develop”.
The new Dynamics AX have some very powerful capabilities to show exactly where time is spent. You would like to explore more about what is happening behind the scene, try adding the...
View ArticleAX7 – Cloud estimation sheet
When working with new clients, I just love to show Life Cycle Services, and all the new tools and gadgets now available to us. Prices on licenses and Azure services are beginning to come into light,...
View ArticleMaster data concepts
In Dynamics AX, we have been blessed that we can have most of the data in one system, and in one single database. But I sense a shift, where systems are breaking up into more loosely best-of-breed...
View ArticleAX RTW – Hack to enable configuration mode
When downloading the AX RTW local VM from connect, you often want to disable some configuration keys. (Like catch weight etc). But now you will see the following warning; “This form is read-only unless...
View ArticleAX 7 RTW – My ODATA and JSON journey – Part I
Learn the word; ODATA. We will hear a lot of ODATA in the future, because it will change the way we integrate and how we exchange information between AX and other systems. A good starting point is the...
View ArticleAX RTW Hack to enable unsupported countries
We have learned that today the RTW is officially released, but this is mainly for the “tier-1” countries. I’m a bit jealous on Denmark and Iceland that are in the first support release wave, and that...
View ArticleAX RTW My ODATA and JSON journey – Part II
For part II of the learning involves taking a look at a video from the Technical Briefing. Microsoft Dynamics AX Integration: A Customer Perspective: https://mbspartner.microsoft.com/AX/Videos/961...
View ArticleMobile Access for Visual Studio
In the new AX the tool we use for work, development, test and build is Visual Studio Online(VSO). Now a mobile access to VSO is available in the Visual Studio Markedplace. It enables you to browse,...
View ArticleNew Dynamics AX On premise = Azure Stack
As we know, deploying the new Dynamics AX will basically come in 3 different flavors. I wanted to explain a bit what this means and what I have found. The information here should be double checked...
View ArticleNew Dynamics AX and the Excel Add-on
When using the «Open in Excel»( Dynamics Office Add-in) feature in the New Dynamics AX RTW, you may have some trouble opening it in Excel. Especially if you have a corporate login, like me. It then...
View ArticleAX RTW My ODATA and JSON journey – Part III
Now the fun begins, and let’s develop! The following post is only meant for hardcore Dynamics AX technical consultants JIn previous posts I wrote about how to access Dynamics AX data and metadata...
View ArticleNew Dynamics AX – Pimp up your form-letters with document branding
The New Dynamics AX never stops to surprise me, and every day I find new possibilities and solutions. Microsoft have made available a new set of form letters, like purchase order, sales confirmation,...
View ArticleThe most important AX.HELP page
To always keep an eye on what’s happening is important. We see that AX.HELP is growing and becoming the number one center for understanding the new AX. I want to give you the most important page;...
View ArticleHow I saved thousands of dollars on my Azure environments!
I just love such headlines, because it instantly attracts attention. But in this case it is actually true. And Microsoft is even wants us to do this. I want to write how to automatically shut down and...
View ArticleDynamics 365, PowerApps, Flow and Common Data Model
This summer at WPC Microsoft unveiled the Dynamics cloud strategy by explaining their new initiative named Dynamics 365. Let me say it very short; IT ROCKS !A good Q&A blog explaining it is this...
View ArticleDynamics 365; Hello CDM
The Common Data Model was today as promised made available in preview through PowerApps, and gave us insight on how it works. You need to take a log at the following blog posts. Your entry point for...
View ArticleDynamics AX Retail Scale Unit
In the AX Licensing Guide from february 2016 Microsoft announced a new add-on to retail called; Retail Scale Unit. Retail Scale UnitAs part of our future offering, we are considering offering a scale...
View ArticleTesting Microsoft Flow for CRM –> AX integration
A few days ago Microsoft have the Flow connector available for preview, and you can read more about it here. What I wanted was to see if I could make a very simplified flow, where a customer is created...
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