Dynamics AX for Retail POS Development

This article is a kick start for customizing AX for Retail POS. We will see how we can modify or create new touch screen forms, operations & tables in POS system. At the end, you will also see some code samples that will also give you the feeling of how code looks in POS.

Upload of Fetch-Xml report fails with VB Code - Dynamics CRM

This is a quick reference to keep things in mind while writing VB code on Fetch-Xml based SSRS reports. You need to avoid using below functions otherwise you wont be able to upload your reports to Dynamics CRM Online.

Add new Context Menu in AOT to Browse Table with Grid Toolbar - Dynamics AX

In this article we will see how we can extend Dynamics AX table browser to have standard grid toolbar like all other Dynamics AX forms. We will also create a new context menu in AOT > Data dictionary > Table > Add-Ins, called "Table browser - Advance", which will show us our advanced table browser and the default Table browser context menu command will show standard table browser as usual.

Change File Ownership through X++ in Dynamics AX

This article shows a little trick that might be needed for testing AX AIF file adapter based integration. We all know that how frustrating it can be to setup input file ownership to current AX user while testing otherwise AX will complain about it.

Here is a small static function with filepath as a parameter. This function will set current AX user as the owner of the input file. This function can be called right before the call to fileSystem.ReadFile(filePath) in \Classes\AifFileSystemReceiveAdapter\readFile.

Modify Dynamics AX Standard Excel Import to Include - Update existing records - rule

Sometimes we need to import an excel file that contains existing and new records. With standard Dynamics AX 2009 you don't get an option (import rule) where you can specify ONLY import and update existing records. Below are standard AX excel import rules...