2 February 2010 0 Comments

Looking for a Dynamics Ax technical consultant?

Please just contact me and I will respond asap.

8 December 2009 0 Comments

Enumerate window elements

More location bar silliness , this time showing you all the members defined on the window object. This will probably wrap quite badly, so I’m colorizing it a bit for readability, but it will allow you to just copy and paste

4 December 2009 0 Comments

ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Data Binding on MSDN Magazine

The ASP.NET AJAX library is one very cool, performant work of engineering that has smoothed the programming experience for web developers, and now they’re taking it to the next level. Dino Esposito writes about Live Data Binding in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 , and shows how some of the cool tricks are pulled off to get things like two-way data binding. Definitely worth reading.

19 August 2009 0 Comments

License issue when customizing Gantt controls

When using Gantt charts from any module it works fine, but when trying to edit it from the AOT the following error occurs: (e.g. when opening AOT/Forms/SmaDispatchBoard/Designs/Design/ and right click/edit) The licensing has failed! Please contact Netronic Software GmbH… The reason for this is that the license for Gantt charts in Dynamics AX is only valid for runtime not development

18 August 2009 0 Comments

Problems when trying to update a certain field with AIF

Recently I tried to setup AIF in standard AX 2009. The purpose was to send service orders electronically with AIF, in XML-format and sending it back to AX in order to update the field StageId of the specific service order.

18 August 2009 0 Comments

Importing Leads and Contacts

You can find a very good description on our team blog (EMEA Dynamics AX Support) how to import leads and contact Xml files with Dynamics Ax 2009 here .

11 August 2009 0 Comments

Large Xml-documents with an AIF-WebService.

If you are faced to ‘large’ Xml-documents with AIF-WebServices, you might be faced to difficulties for Inbound and OutBound services. The following two points should be applied for the client app.config, if the client uses the WCF for communicating with the AIF-WebService (Inbound-Services – you are sending large Xml-Documents to the AIF-WebService), and on the server web.config (Outbound-Services – you are receiving large Xml-documents from the WebService) 1) Changing the web.config by adding the…( read more )

10 August 2009 0 Comments

Gender information in Employees-form and the Global Address Book (GAB)

You can open the information about employees with the Global Address Book (Basic/Global Address Book) and with the Employees form (Basic/Employees). Normally it is no problem to modify data in both forms, but unfortunately this is not true for the ‘gender’ property . This information is stored in the DirPersonPartyDetail ( Gender ) and EmplTable (EmplGender) table.

16 July 2009 0 Comments

Debugging Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 SSRS reports with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

While Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports allowed in in Dynamics AX 4.0 a user to create Ad’hoc reports that were only based on the data stored in the Dynamics AX database, in Dynamics AX 2009 Production reports allow also the execution of Business Logic. The Business Logic can either be X++ code in the AOT or C# code directly in the SSRS report.

16 July 2009 0 Comments

Authentication when you are adding a new user to CRM, or a user to a new Organization in CRM

We have seen a couple of errors such as: "The specified Active Directory user already exists as a CRM user" "You are attempting to create a user with a domain logon that is already used by another user. Select another domain logon and try again." When the user which you are trying to add is not an existing CRM user, or not an existing CRM user in the Organization you are trying to add to. If you see this type of error, please log a case with the Support team and we will be looking at the following stored procedure and database tables to rectify the issue.

7 May 2009 1 Comment

Could not communicate with Microsoft Office Outlook client

Dynamics AX is integration with Microsoft Office Outlook for sending E-Mails, doing synchronization in the CRM Module, etc.

30 April 2009 0 Comments

Watermarks on reports

Recently I was confronted with the requirement to place a watermark on a report.