Archive for May, 2008

Preparation for Dynamics AX certifications

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I am currently studying to complete the Enterprise portal development certification exam. Today I found this link that describes the different parts of the exam. Anyone who have taken one of these exams before knows that you get your result for the entire exam but also for each of the exam parts. That is what this link gives you, an overview of the different parts and what subjects each part contains.

Microsoft learning manager.

You also get such information as what percentage each part is of the entire exam, which makes it easier to prioritize your studying in case of time restraints.

Send alerts/messages to online users

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

In Axapta 3.x there is a functionality that lets you send messages to online users. This functionality is lost in Dynamics AX 4.x which is a problem when you want an easy way to communicate with the online users. Maybe you want the users to know that that the AOS is going to be restarted at a specific time and as a result they should save their work and log out before this happens.

I’ve looked around the web and have found some examples on how to create these notifications, but none that worked all the way without a visit to the debugger. Tired of not having access to this functionality I decided to build it, and this is the result.

As the base I am using the alerts functionality in Dynamics AX 4.0.
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Download Dynamics AX 2009

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Dynamics AX 2009 is now ready for download. Click the link below to go to a blog post written by DaxGuy where you can find the download link.

Link to blog post.

Inside Dynamics AX 4.0 - Free eBook

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Found this on the blog mfp:s two cents. You can now download Inside Dynamics AX 4.0 for free as an eBook provided by Microsoft.

Link to blog post.

Nice to also have an portable and searchable version to add to my copy of the paperback.

How to add current profile name to the window title

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

If you use a descriptive text on your profiles you use to startup axapta with, you have here another way of a very clear presentation of which installation, db, etc settings you are running under.
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How to colour code different companies inside axapta

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

During development and test we often switch between different companies in our installation. To not mistaken us, so we always make changes in the correct one, we made this small change in the code. With different background-colours for each company, you never delete something importent by mistake. This example shows how it could be done.
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How to catch special keystrokes and use them as shortcuts

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Rightclick on a form and go down tracking a specific field or other data, is a tedious work if you do it dozens of times per day.

We wanted to catch the key combination ctrl+Z (since it is rarelly used when running axapta), so we could use it to display common data about a form, field or other info. This is a code example we nowdays always install in all new test and development environments (not production, since it would give normal users unwanted access).
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