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Speed up your compiles in AX 2012
Hope those who are at #Conv14 are enjoying it! In the meantime, I’ll post a tip I got from Microsoft at #AXTech2014 for the rest of us. 🙂 Simple tricks to speed up compilation: for pre-CU7 Single machine deployment Add … Continue reading
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New and exciting things coming up
What a great time to be alive! 🙂 – I have a client going live… how exciting for them! Truly, it’s harder than birthing a baby! Although the followup later is vastly different. 🙂 – I am working with a … Continue reading
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New whitepaper: Financial consolidations and currency translation
I come from a long line of accountants… I married an accountant… and now my college son is enjoying only one course – guess what it is – accounting, of course! Some of my best friends are number crunchers. Â … Continue reading
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Hot Swapping in Production
A (repeat of) a word to the wise – with a twist, if you read to the end. One of our clients was getting CIL errors; I don’t have details. It was discovered (I cannot take credit) that the checkbox … Continue reading
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Five Good Minutes in Microsoft Dynamics AX – Power Pivot Tricks, AX Reports, and Super Bowl Shuffles
Five PowerPivot Favorites (the “Shuffle”): 1. Create relationships in PP 2. “Related” function in PP 3. Normal Excel “if” function in PP 4. Greatest DAX Formula – “calculate” 5. PowerView bringing it all together! Chad clarifies the tasks which are … Continue reading
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Error executing code: FormRun (data source) has no valid runable code in method ‘new’.
Whenever we tried to edit a workflow (it happened with EVERY workflow, but did not seem to be happening outside of workflow) we would get this error: “Error executing code: FormRun (data source) has no valid runable code in method … Continue reading
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Parameter _reportName cannot be null or empty.
Note to self: when you get an error “Parameter _reportName cannot be null or empty” then remember the post you found at http://axdax.blogspot.com/2013/11/parameter-reportname-cannot-be-null-or.html and let a full compile finish. The blog mentions that you can compile the class referenced. But for … Continue reading
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Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference
Very excited about going to #AXTech2014! As a geek they don’t usually let me out. 😉 They recently announced the speakers will be Hal Howard and Christan Pedersen. I was prepping for it by looking at the sessions they’ll be … Continue reading
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AOS Environment Name in Developer Workspace
My colleagues were recently discussing the AOS name in the status bar. They found that it’s not reliable. Please see the post linked below for a good description of the investigation. Yet last night when I put the “wrong” instance … Continue reading
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DAX Development: Compile, Generate (CIL), and Restart (AOS)
I found a very interesting post today. It talks about compiling vs. full IL vs. incremental IL. Read the post and read the comments (which are by a couple of AX superstars). In the comments there’s a link to a … Continue reading
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