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...

Twitter Is Even Better Inside Your Dynamics AX 2012 Role Center

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:34:19 -0700

I use Twitter all the time to find new topics and news. So it's just natural that I should try to add it into Dynamics AX 2012 so that I can have all my Twitter searches fed to me automatically. It's so useful that I though I would share it...

SharePoint + AX == Document Management

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:35:58 -0700

SharePoint is a great tool for managing documents, because it allows you to index the files any way that you like and add as much metadata ad you like to the documents. The only thing better than accessing documents through SharePoint would be to embed SharePoint directly in the Dynamics AX screens so that related documents are delivered directly to the users rather than having to search for them separately. In this example we will show how you can easily extend out Dynamics AX 2012 to have embedded views from the transaction screens to SharePoint to save users a couple of clicks.

Expenses Made Easy Through The Employee Service Portal

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:54:09 -0700

A couple of days ago I tinkered with the Expense Report submission process within Dynamics AX 2012's Employee Services portal. It is pretty nice, and also easy to use. The Employee Service portal is also a lightweight, and less expensive (user license wise) way to give some of the casual...

No Android Tablet… No Worries

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:35:37 -0700

A while back I needed to test an application on an Android platform. Being a little too cheap to buy another tablet, I used the Android SDK. I tried it a couple of times before I got it right, so I thought that I would share my notes on how...