A while back I was tipped off about a tool from Microsoft called LightSwitch, and it looks like it has come out of Beta and is now an official product. So I took a quick look at it and was able to use it to easily create some alternative screens for Dynamics AX without a single line of coding. This is too cool.
If you want to see the walkthrough that I created, I posted it here on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/creating-dynamics-ax-2012-interfaces-with-microsoft-lightswitch
I found this article on TechNet last month on Creating Cubes in AX 2012 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc622026.aspx) and was just able to take a look and work through the example. This is too cool - because you don't need to even touch MSSQL in order to create and deploy your very own reporting cubes. Within about half an hour I was able to create my very own cube and report off it.
I created a walkthrough on SlideShare showing the steps - but be warned, this is just a straight copy of the TechNet article with pictures. If you want to check it out though, here is the link: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/creating-an-analysis-services-cube-for-dynamics-ax-2012-in-aot
I spent today trying to get the Customer Self Service portal configured on my demo AX2012 system, and after a few false starts, the corruption of a user account, and a little help from a collegue, I was able to get it all up and running.
So that others don't make the same errors that I made, I thought that I would post the complete walkthrough on how to configure remote users, and the customer self service catalogs here: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/configuring-customer-self-service-portals-in-dynamics-ax-2012
Once it's up and running it's pretty cool.
Lync is my new most favorite application from Microsoft. I didn't think that it could get any better until my collegue Chris Hoer showed me how to enable the Lync Presence Integration features into Dynamics AX 2012.
This is cool. If you want to see a complete walkthrough on how to enable, setup, and use the Lync integration, check out my post here: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/enabling-lync-presence-integration-in-dynamics-ax-2012
Ryan Kaul at Microsoft is my new best friend. He helped me this morning with an example of how to create InfoPath forms that Update Dyanmics AX 2012, and in return, I created the following example from some of his code that uses web services to update Dynamics AX. It's pretty cool if I do say so myself :-)
If anyone is interested in viewing the full walkthrough then I posted it here on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/creating-dynamics-ax-data-entry-forms-with-infopath
In one of my previos posts I showed how to create cues from queries in Dynamics AX (http://murrayfife.typepad.com/atinkerersnotebook/2012/01/creating-cues-in-dynamics-ax-2012-the-hard-way.html) and today I was trying to extend this out by creating additional filters on my data for an upcomming demo. Along the way I was able to learn some of the wildcarding syntax for AX.
If anyone is interested in seeing some of the examples that I came up with then you can see them on my SlideShare account here: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/using-wild-cards-in-dynamix-ax-2012-filters
Up until now, I didn't think that there was a way to create Cues in Dynamics AX 2012 for legacy inquiries where the option is not shown on the screen. Luckily I was just shown how to do this through a backdoor option.
Most of you may not care, but for the few that do, here is a link to the quick worked example: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/creating-cues-in-dynamics-ax-2012-when-the-option-not-available
I watched a presentation the other day by TARGIT on the new Service Release 1 features, and one of the features that they showed was the ability to create Navigation Bars that dynamically link you through into other reports and dashboards. This piqued my interest so I tried it our myself and they are pretty cool.
I posted a full walkthrough of what I was able to do on SlideShare if anyone is interested in learning more about this feature. Here is the link: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/creating-navigation-menus-in-targit
Wiki's rock - the only thing that makes them better is when they are used in conjuction with Dynamics AX.
If anyone is interested in how I created the Wiki, and integrated it into Dynamics, I posted the walkthrough here: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/using-sharepoint-wikis-in-ax-for-collaborative-knowledge
I have tried so many times to get the MySites in SharePoint configured, and finally worked out the special step that I was missing in the process. After getting them configured, I realized that there was so much I could do with them.
I posted a walkthrough of how I configured the site, and also how I used it for my demo here on slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/creating-sharepoint-mysite-sites
