Are you registered for Dynamic Communities’ User Group Summit 2018 in Phoenix? Summit is the ultimate in-person learning experience for Microsoft Dynamics end users. The event includes sessions and activities covering the entire Microsoft Dynamics suite of products. Topics are also organized by educational tracks such as Finance, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management as well […]

Trade agreements in Dynamics AX 2012 allow for setting up prices and discounts for Products, Vendors, and Customers (or groups of Products, Vendors, and Customers). Trade agreements can be set up in a lot of different ways, with varying results. In a previous post, I showed how to set up a price for an item […]

I recently had a scenario where we had to create a new vendor attribute that could have one or more values assigned to a vendor. The requirement wanted a drop-down field that opened a form and showed which values had been selected and which ones are still available. The lookup form should also allow the […]

Recently I made the transition from Dynamics AX 2009 to Dynamics AX 2012 and continue to learn all the differences between the two (I know, it’s 2018!). That being said, I was tasked with making a minor change to the dialog for project estimates which originates in the ProjControlPeriod class. Simple. I add my new […]

Whether testing posting profiles, validating the sub-ledger or confirming journal entries, I often print the journal entries to my screen before I decide to post them. I was surprised to learn that not everyone knows how to do this! Read on learn about previewing ledger postings in Dynamics AX. From any journal form, go to […]

Recently, I was making some customizations to a report in Dynamics AX. I was adding a handful of new fields. The report was Precision Forms enabled and the new fields I had added were not displaying on the report. It should be an easy fix, but it took me a bit to find the issue […]

This quick modification for tracing bug code in a Dynamics AX production environment was used at a client site. I have received their permission to blog about this as I thought it was pretty useful. Basically, the modification consists of the creation of an empty security role. When a user reports a bug, they may […]

In Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations, restricted products are managed through established “Restriction lists” for countries and regions. Restricted products in Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations are set up in the compliance section of either the Inventory management or the Product information management module. There are two types of lists – inclusive and […]

While getting introduced to development in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, I found myself in a situation of adding/removing a model. There is a helpful tool we can use called “modleutil.exe”. This executable can be levied to accomplish a multitude of possibilities such as, import, delete, replace, and export. In order to use the […]

A client recently reported that their customer overrides for Print Management in Dynamics AX had suddenly all reset to Screen. They used Print Management extensively to email Invoices to their customers. Having these emails suddenly “wiped out” was a critical issue for them. In discussing the issue, it came to my attention that a recent […]