Category Archives: AX2012

New ERDs for AX2012 R2!

Posted on May 24, 2013 by janeteblake

Microsoft has heard our pleas! I think we’ve ALL been working up our own versions of ERDs for the normalized 2012 tables, to try to get a grasp on the total rearchitecture that happened. So I was over the moon … Continue reading →

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Five Good Minutes – Dynamics AX 2012 Grids, Filters, and Role Center Cues

Posted on May 15, 2013 by janeteblake

“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

Posted on May 8, 2013 by janeteblake

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

Posted on April 26, 2013 by janeteblake

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

Posted on April 14, 2013 by janeteblake

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.”

Posted on April 12, 2013 by janeteblake

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

Posted on January 22, 2013 by janeteblake

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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Why didn’t my CIL generate?

Posted on December 18, 2012 by janeteblake

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

Posted on December 14, 2012 by janeteblake

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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