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A while back I saw an example of using Visio to create data driven dashboards, and I finally got around to creating an example for myself.
I posted the worked example on SlideShare if anyone wants to do it for themselves: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/creating-dynamics-ax-dashboards-using-visio-services
A while back, I can across this post on how to assign icons to menu items in Dynamics AX 2012: http://www.dynamicsaxtraining.com/knowledge-base-development/module-logo
This made me think if I could create a consolidated menu to save from having to move from one module to another, and here is what I was able to do:
If anyone is interested in seeing the full walkthrough, I posted the steps on SlideShare here: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/creating-consolidated-user-menus-in-dynamics-ax-2012
I have been tinkering with the new Office Add-In functionality available with Dynamics AX 2012, and even though there is no add in for data querying within PowerPoint, I was wondering if there was a way to embed a Dynamics AX query within PowerPoint anyway. This is the result:
If you are interested in seeing how I did this - I posted a walk through on SlideShare here: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/embedding-dynamics-ax-2012-data-in-powerpoint
Yesterday I was tinkering with Dynamics AX and Office - looking at the different ways that users are able to create reports. I expected to be able to do something cool within Excel, but when I found out that I could connect directly to the AX data through Word and create reports as well I was overjoyed (small things like this make me happy).
If you want to see how to do this yourself, I posted the following walkthrough on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/creating-dynamics-ax-2012-reports-in-word
I just saw a post online talking about how to synchronize AX 2009 contacts with Outlook (http://www.dynamicscare.com/blog/index.php/setting-up-outlook-sychronization-in-dynamics-ax-2009), and thought that I would try this out in AX 2012. After a little bit of hunting for the right menu options because they moved between versions, I was able to get it all up and running.
If you want to see the worked example, I posted it here: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/syncronizing-dynamics-ax-2012-with-outlook
After finding this blog post by Systems Advisors Group: http://systemsadvisors.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/sharepoint-collaboration-just-got-easier-with-microsoft-dynamics-ax-2012/ I thought that I would take a look at how to set up the collaboration portals within Dynamics Ax. I didn't think that I could love SharePoint any more - but after setting up the following example I found out that there is still more to appreciate :-)
If you are interested in finding out how to do this yourself, I posted the following tutorial: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/using-sharepoint-for-project-collaboration
