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Five Good Minutes – Dynamics AX 2012 Grids, Filters, and Role Center Cues
“I need a report for that” – maybe not! Please see installment 2 of Five Good Minutes with Dynamics AX. I learned on this filtering, and even attempted to use it on a request I got! 🙂  Five Good … Continue reading
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Five Good Minutes in Microsoft Dynamics AX: Part 1: PowerPivot
I’m so excited to share word of my colleague Chad Carnes’ new video series “Five Good Minutes in Microsoft Dynamics AX.” Chad shows AX users how to make things they do or need to do, easy! With my years of … Continue reading
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Data Import/Export Framework – AX 2012
I recently had the opportunity to introduce the “inside team” at my client to the new Data Import/Export Framework (released on InformationSource), and we were all very pleased with the results. The class consisted of a Project Manager, production … Continue reading
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Using the Excel add-in to update custom fields
Our application consultant came to me wanting to update custom fields which had been added to the InventSerial table. He could pull the data down to Excel, but couldn’t push it back up to AX. The first step (with thanks … Continue reading
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“My purchase order is doubling the item description.”
A client had reported this issue to me, but it magically self-resolved. Time constraints being what they are, I didn’t get back to it. But this morning, a second client reported it. I was sure it was data. Close. It … Continue reading
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“Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation” – solved
Blogging this so that I don’t forget it yet again. The users logged into a new AX 2012 CU3 environment, and got this error when they tried to run the Purchase Order, the bane of 2012, it would seem! “Exception … Continue reading
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2012 Lessons learned
Sitting at the airport, waiting for a late incoming plane, thought I would put these together.  2012 professional lessons learned  –         Life is fluid; flexibility is key –         Software release = new bugs (we already knew that, but … Continue reading
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Why didn’t my CIL generate?
Up till now, when I did a full CIL generate and it didn’t work, I knew I had an error in my AOT compile. But that takes forever. Found a GREAT shortcut today.  http://axfaq.blogspot.com/2012/07/cil-generation-ax-2012-error-when.html  Thanks to Julian!  … Continue reading
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My grid fields won’t sort – solved
Just a quick note on a problem I just worked around. My grid fields wouldn’t sort. You click the gray heading bar, and they pretend they sort, but they don’t. My main form data source was table A. I also … Continue reading
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