Since my last blog in 2017 a few things have changed. The developers in Moscow have been extending the module massively, and they seem to have fully embraced the Continuous delivery approach. Every new version or hotfix bears surprises, both pleasant and unpleasant. Here is a small personal excerpt: Configurations may
Again an entity was missing in D365FO to import the data, this time a custom one. Building upon my work Copy-paste automation in D365 FO with a keyboard script, I created a Wunderwaffe script to copy a simple table with a Code and a Description directly from Excel into the D365FO
A couple of times in my career I stumbled upon a development requirement to perform a set of loosely connected actions with a similar interface upon a certain business object depending on parameters or conditions: Sometimes do this Sometimes do that Sometimes do this and that In future, you may do
Building upon my insight into travel expenses and per diem calculation in Germany, let us consider Austrian and Norwegian per diems side by side. In both countries scaled rates per hour apply, and in both counties rules for the domestic travel and for traveling abroad differ. Both countries can be implemented
The below instruction was inspired by the blog How to access AX 7 from other machine. However, I work not on a single notebook, but connect to a prosumer 6-core Windows Server 2016 machine with 32 GB RAM, 1 TB M2. SSD. The resulting performance is comparable – if not higher
A well-formed intra-community or export invoice in the European Union should have a certain remark for the issuer (exporter) to have a tax-free delivery, and for the recipient (importer) to apply the proper tax regime. In the past we used to build complex hard-coded logic into our invoices in Dynamics AX:
The Microsoft Dynamics Product Group in their infinite wisdom first deprecated in D365 FO the import into an arbitrary table (because entities can do much more, and they became the First Class Citizens in the development environment), then the table browser in Production (because Microsoft Support Engineers were complaining the partners
It’s the holiday season, time to close the accounting year, accrue prepaid expenses in your books and build provisions for anticipated losses, reducing your corporate tax base and saving money. If an AP invoice for goods or services has been received at or before the year end but relates to the
Windows 10 Creators update comes with a high DPI support. It has a positive impact on Dynamics AX 2012 presentation. Right-click the Dynamics AX link, choose Compatibility settings, set …DPI settings = System (a new option in the Creators Update). For the first time in 5 years the menus are rendered
