Using LightSwitch To Extend Dynamics AX 2012

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:25:46 -0700

A while back I was tipped off about a tool from Microsoft called LightSwitch, and it looks like it has come out of Beta and is now an official product. So I took a quick look at it and was able to use it to easily create some alternative screens...

You Don't Need To Be A Data Warehouse Expert To Create AX2012 Cubes

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:04:58 -0700

I found this article on TechNet last month on Creating Cubes in AX 2012 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc622026.aspx) and was just able to take a look and work through the example. This is too cool - because you don't need to even touch MSSQL in order to create and deploy your very own...

Enabling Customers Access to Dynamics AX through Self Service Portals

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:32:07 -0700

I spent today trying to get the Customer Self Service portal configured on my demo AX2012 system, and after a few false starts, the corruption of a user account, and a little help from a collegue, I was able to get it all up and running. So that others don't...

Using Lync In Dynamics AX To Speed Up Communication

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:21:40 -0700

Lync is my new most favorite application from Microsoft. I didn't think that it could get any better until my collegue Chris Hoer showed me how to enable the Lync Presence Integration features into Dynamics AX 2012. This is cool. If you want to see a complete walkthrough on how...

Using InfoPath Forms with Dynamics AX

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:01:16 -0700

Ryan Kaul at Microsoft is my new best friend. He helped me this morning with an example of how to create InfoPath forms that Update Dyanmics AX 2012, and in return, I created the following example from some of his code that uses web services to update Dynamics AX. It's...

Wildcards & Regular Expressions in Dynamics AX 2012 Make Filtering Easier

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:38:09 -0700

In one of my previos posts I showed how to create cues from queries in Dynamics AX (http://murrayfife.typepad.com/atinkerersnotebook/2012/01/creating-cues-in-dynamics-ax-2012-the-hard-way.html) and today I was trying to extend this out by creating additional filters on my data for an upcomming demo. Along the way I was able to learn some of the wildcarding...

Creating Cues in Dynamics AX 2012 the hard way

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:54:08 -0700

Cues are great ways to organize your workspace, and are easy to create in all of the new Dynamics AX 2012 forms. But what if you still have some of the old style forms, and you want to create a cue for them (you may notice that there is now option available to do that). Don’t worry – there is a way to do that, it just takes a couple more steps. In this worked example we will show you the back door option.

Adding Dynamic Drill Through in TARGIT using Navigation Bars

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:27:11 -0700

The latest beta release of TARGIT has a new feature called a Navigation Bar that allows you to create drill down shortcuts to multiple dashboards. In this worked example we will show how you can set up the Navigation Bar to help with the analysis of your data through TARGIT.

Use SharePoint Wikis to Integrate Tribal Knowledge into Dynamics AX 2012

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:37:13 -0700

Wiki's rock - the only thing that makes them better is when they are used in conjuction with Dynamics AX. If anyone is interested in how I created the Wiki, and integrated it into Dynamics, I posted the walkthrough here: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/using-sharepoint-wikis-in-ax-for-collaborative-knowledge

Give Users Their (Own) Space

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:59:16 -0700

I have tried so many times to get the MySites in SharePoint configured, and finally worked out the special step that I was missing in the process. After getting them configured, I realized that there was so much I could do with them. I posted a walkthrough of how I...