We have come across an issue where the Purchase Order invoices vouchers are doubled in the G/L in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. In customer environment, the Batch Transfer rules selected in the G/L was Scheduled Batch and the Summarize accounting entries...

Resolving a SQL SPID to an AX user can be useful when trying to diagnose performance or blocking issues on the database server. As some of you are aware, in AX 2012 it is now possible to track an AX user to a specific SQL SPID. This is documented here...

Hello all - Our In-Market Engineering team (formerly known as Sustained Engineering) has logged a blog post with some tips on what information to include when you open a support case that might turn into a code defect investigation. Check it out on their...

Fiscal calendars provide a framework for the financial activity of an organization. Each fiscal calendar contains one or more fiscal years, and each fiscal year contains multiple periods. Fiscal calendars can be based on a January 1 to December 31 calendar...

The Dynamics AX server team has a new blog! In this blog, members from the Dynamics AX server team will be posting tips and tricks, insights into the product, answer frequently asked questions and in general get a communication with consumers of the...

Cumulative Update 5 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 (CU-5) has been released and published on Partner Source and Customer Source. This release includes: all previously released Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 additional hotfixes...

For example, the following XML document is created for a customer sales invoice. <? xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " UTF-8 " ?> < Envelope xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/dynamics/2011/01/documents/Message " > < Header...

The address book is not a new concept to AX, but in AX 2012 the use of the address books to associate customers was added to retail stores. In working with this topic I have noted and recommend being on at least CU3 for AX 2012 for this to work properly...

Since end of March we have published a series of new white papers and guides and existing documents have been updated. Follow the links below to access the content: New White Papers and Guides Posting sales tax amounts for intercompany transactions...

We have run across a few situations in Dynamics AX 2012 where the workflow batch job fails with the error "Failed to find workflow" message. When the customer received this error it prevented the remaining workflow messages in the queue from being processed...

Issue: The disable button on the Customer Free Text Invoice is disabled for a user which has the CustFreeInvoiceMaintain privilege assigned. Summary: This situation only occurs in Ax2012 as Ax2012R2 has made a change to the CustFreeInvoiceListPage...

Important : This sample is not a production ready solution. As described below the user credentials will be passed in plain text which is not ideal in a production environment. To prevent this from occurring it would be recommended to incorporate SSL...

As scheduling parameter setting is new parameter functionality in AX 2012 under setup of organization administration. Here is a brief description of these settings which could be used to get the optimum results: Scheduling timeout enabled...

The “Detect update scripts (Required)” is the first part of the Data upgrade section in the checklist. If you get the following warning “Data Upgrade mode had already been initialized. If additional updates have been installed complete the data upgrade...

Details on prerequisites required in order to deploy Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 on Microsoft SharePoint Server/Foundation 2013 have been recently released. Please review the following TechNet article: Enterprise Portal on Microsoft...

New Resource Page for PO Invoicing! A new PO invoicing resource page is now live on the Communities site: https://community.dynamics.com/ax/b/axresources/archive/2013/04/11/resource-page-for-purchase-order-invoicing-in-microsoft-dynamics-ax.aspx ...

If you log into AX Dynamics 2012 and in the foreign curreny revaluation(exchange adjustment) in another language than English and wish to filter on reviewed and non-reviewed transactions the filter is not executed. This applies both for Accounts Receivable...

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Creating periods in the Aging Period Definition window can be kind of cumbersome. Follow the steps below to create periods in the Aging Period Definition window.: 1. Remove all of the periods that you have added. 2. Click the Add button under...

It is essential that when setting up a receipt number formats in Retail that they are unique per register and store. The following example is the most common scenario we've seen happen when receipt formats are not unique: Scenario : Terminal 1 has...

We are pleased to announce the availability of a series of new white papers and guides as well as some updates to existing documents. Also, the online Help for the Microsoft Dynamics AX Retail online store has been updated to reflect the new functionality...

Sometimes during an AX 2012 R2 In-Place upgrade, when running the Setup for Database components to split the model store into a new database and apply the new R2 models; you may get the following error “An item with the same key has already been added...

We have published a major expansion of the Help available for Microsoft Dynamics ERP RapidStart Services on TechNet. RapidStart Services is one of the services available from Online Services for Microsoft Dynamics . RapidStart Services lets partners...

This is the scenario: You are performing an In-Place upgrade from Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 CU3+ to AX 2012 R2, and have “Foundation Labels II” installed in the model store. After completing the upgrade you will find that the labels for Tier 2 Countries...

Consider the following scenario You receive 10 pcs on a Project Purchase Order in AX2009 You find out later that you should have actually received 9 pcs However, if you wish to return the 1 pcs and you enter a negative qty in the 'Receive...