Now, you get to learn a very rare secret on how to get full SharePoint and ease of use functionality out of Dynamics AX with business connectivity services. What I am going to show you first is the problem that usually stops people from being able to fully integrate SharePoint with the Dynamics line of…
It is time to finally host our service so that others can use. See, a service is just code that is hosted and meant for others to use. That means that we need some sort of way to make our service available to other applications, so that it can do what it does best. Here,…
In Part 3c, we will set up security. What I originally wanted to do was setup security and deploy the service in this post. However, while I was writing the post, I quickly realized that it may have been a little too long for just one post. While it would be nice to write my…
In this tutorial, you get to really have some fun with Dynamics AX AIF. And don’t forget the term SharePoint. That is where you will see the true power of using Dynamics AX with other systems. We’ll go through the wizard and tidy up our service so that it is ready for deployment. You’ll come…
Now, we finally get to see how to make a dashboard in SSRS. After this, if you’ve followed the other videos, you’ll be able to do some pretty impressive things with the Report Builder tool. Forgive me, it has been really busy lately with several hectic work weeks. That being said, I’ve tried to blog…
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could consume and edit your Dynamics AX data with SharePoint? While Dynamics AX has a very intuitive user interface for forms, sometimes we need to be able to work with data within other applications. There are two particular aims of this tutorial. First, I want to show you how…
Now, let’s start building some services in Dynamics AX. In this tutorial, we will take on the role of the power user needing to setup a service and consume the data for business analytical purposes. This will require no code and will show you how a power user could setup and consume services in Dynamics…
While I was working on my reporting series for Dynamics AX, I realized that it was needing some foundational knowledge. To see the true BI functionality of Dynamics AX, one needs a base understanding of Forms, Services, and Enterprise Portal. Thus, I decided to put together a quick beginning series on Services that is designed…
Dynamics AX is absolutely amazing when it comes to reporting. However, there are many misconceptions. In this series, we will learn how to write reports in Dynamics AX. We’ll dispel many of the myths and see the advantages to the Dynamics AX way of reporting. We start by writing a report the old way. The…
Note: these are real labs that you will need to actually do in order to gain the real value of these tutorials. So, these tutorials aim at someone who is just starting out in the Dynamics AX world with development. We go from using the design features to coding with X++. Development in Dynamics AX…