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AX Life Cycle Services and BPML’s
Life Cycle Services is a cloud-based collaborative workspace that customers and partners can use to manage their Dynamics AX projects from pre-sales into operations. One component of LCS is the Business Process Modeler which is used to create, view, and … Continue reading
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AX 2012 CU7 Task Recorder – Distributed Environment
With Dynamics AX 2012 R2 CU7, a new Task Recorder has been released. The task recorder will allow you to record your business processes inside AX, generate a package, and upload them to Lifecycle Services (LCS). It is generally suggested … Continue reading
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Dynamics AX 2012 Expense Policies
Expense policies are a powerful tool that allow expense reports to be evaluated prior to submission. When editing/creating policies, it is important to verify the Effective date before saving the record: If the Effective date is not set initially, a … Continue reading
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Enterprise Portal Policy Error
AX can sometimes through confusing error messages – this is definitely one of them. When a user is attempting to save an expense report record on the Enterprise Portal: A currency to convert to is required to retrieve exchange rate … Continue reading
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Creating a C# User Defined Function in Excel that Communicates with a WCF Service
Here is the business case: Your accounting staff wishes to query some figures from the financial system in Excel. To prevent a litany of copying and pasting, creating custom analysis services cubes, or taking the rather drastic measure of granting … Continue reading
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AX4 WCF Errors
The AX Business Connector is extremely useful for accessing AX functionality and data from external programs. The connector has been around for a number of years and is still going strong. When testing a custom service leveraging the AX 4 … Continue reading
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SSAS Calculated Member Based on Dimension Attribute
Creating a calculated member is a great way to add functionality to your cube. Most times calculated members are based entirely off values in your fact table, but every so often you need to pull a figure from a dimension. … Continue reading
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Save & Send from Excel issues with Outlook add-in
Add-ins are a great way to add custom functionality to Outlook. I have found that in certain circumstances they can introduce problems that are frustrating. A prime example of this occurs during the following scenario: • There is add-in loaded … Continue reading
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Excel 2007 vs 2010 SSAS Cube Functions
Sometimes a function that works perfectly fine in one environment totally fails in another. I was recently building a complex set of cube reports in Excel that caused me no end of grief. By complex I mean using a formula … Continue reading
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SSRS Permissions
So you have just done a fresh install of SSRS 2008 R2. When you try to browse to http://yourServerName/reports you recieve this following message: “YourUserName does not have the required permissions. Verify that sufficient permissions have been granted and Windows … Continue reading
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