Upgrading from V3 to V4 P3
Well here we go I carry on my run through of some of the obstacles I have faced in upgrading from V3 to V4.The CreateLine function on the SalesLine Table has an added parameter that controls credit...
View ArticleNew Fix distribution policy Horror from MS
Someone in their infinite wisdom in MS has decided that any fixes to the product Dynamics AX 4.00 SP1 onwards will be distributed in an aod file directly.Why do I state that this is horrible ?Well all...
View ArticleUpgrading from V3 to V4 Part IV
I have one final gripe as regards this process, label files. Someone in their infinite wisdom decided to cancel the GLS and DIS label files and to integrate these in the SYS label file.Aside from the...
View ArticleDynamics AX Base Data Model Part II
I ended the previous message on this subject by discussing the inventdim and stating that the introduction of this element had caused quite a lot of heartache in many installations.In the previous...
View ArticleV3 - V4 Interesting bug
I had an interesting experience the other day, actually I was pretty infuriated initially but now that I have done it I can laugh about it.I had to create for a fashion related business a "vertical"...
View ArticleRefreshing screen info in V4
I have come accross a small change in behaviour from V3 to V4 which could potentially be rather adverse in its effects.In V3 if you want to update a screen f.ex. and refresh it in a uniform manner then...
View ArticleDynamics Ax 4 SP2
At my last MS presentation there was a big part of the session devoted to the coming of this SP in June this year, and one thing they mentioned which I am very much looking forward to is that it should...
View ArticleNew Head of MBS Good or Bad ?
It seems MS keeps on killing off the MBS leaders, well not really killing off but they all seem to move on at a pace which is not conducive to trust in a business area where turnover is frowned...
View ArticlePerformance issues resolution in Ax Part I
This is a subject on which a lot has been written by any number of people so I will concentrate on some small parts of the issues relating to this, and this is not meant as anything else but a starting...
View ArticleRefreshing Screen Info in V4 PII
After a lot of further studying it seems that it is not Lock / unlock that have been disabled but the flag that deems whether the screen needs redrawing that does not get set by the fact of updating...
View ArticleSupport Policy bugbear
Was just going through Customersource recently and found an article deatiling the new MS support policy for Ax V3 etc. I found it rather disconcerting, it seems the time frame given to support is now...
View ArticleV4 Service pack 2
Just installed this on one of my installations and found much to my consternation that MS has continued to rename tables.Even in Service Packs !The Country as it was in V4 and SP1 is now...
View ArticleLong Break
I have been busy with a few too many concurrent projects and have therefore been silent for a long time I hope to rectify this now as I am coming up for air again and have a lot of subjects that I wish...
View ArticleRefreshing screen Info PIII
I have a few months back found a solution.And as is often the case I found the solution in someone else's code :-).Columbus have developed an integration tool called Galaxy, and this tool imports data...
View ArticleHow to test for a methods implementation
I had a little problem and could not find any reference to a way of doing this, I needed to check before hand if a method was implemented in a given class.After a little bit of searching I came to the...
View ArticlePerformance and InventDim
I find that the impact of the datastructure choosen to implement Inventdimensions is too heavy performance wise and I would really like to see MS - Ax Team in the future revise this structure.In the...
View ArticleDynamics 2009 First Impressions
I have managed to get hold of a TAP2 and TAP3 version of this software and wanted to give my first impressions of some of the new features.Likes:The Version control built into AxThe workflow wizards in...
View ArticlePerformance and Inventdim PII
I wrote on this subject a few months ago and a comment was made that perhaps a solution could be found by creating appropriate views and stored procedures.I have in several instances tried the problem...
View ArticleAX 2009 or V5 goes RTM
Microsoft has recently gone RTM on Ax 2009 or version 5 and in so doing they have removed a few functionalities as opposed to the last TAP version I saw but not much and they are on schedule to make...
View ArticleIn search of Performance (Finance this Time)
I have not noticed when exactly the change was made but when posting to the LedgerBalanceTrans and LedgerBalanceDimTrans the date is no longer always the first or last day of a financial period it is...
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