We have had many, many questions around importing data in AX 2012. Until recently the best way to do imports has been through the use of services. Services are still a great way to import data but you have more choices now. Fairly recently the Data Migration...

--author: Uwe Zimmerman, Anke Hampel Recently we have had a few discussions around how we can safely disable Public Sector industry solution when using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Feature Pack release. We wanted to do this on...

In AX for Retail 2012 we added the ability to create custom fields for use on the POS.  Because there is a bit of programming involved, a good example will probably help out. Note :  One of the first hotfixes released for AX for Retail 2012...

AX 2012 Retail Tracing options The aim of this blog is to describe the different trace options that exists in AX 2012 Retail. We have seen many request how and were to find information about errors in the retail system. Topics ·...

Set/Link Data on Temporary Tables (AX 2012) In Ax 2012, the Temporary property on tables was replaced with a new property: TableType , which has three possible values: Regular - a standard physical table InMemory - the type of temporary table...

I recently was working on the issue when Enums values in report were not translated into user language. I always got it in EN-US. Please look into following example. I have two columns which are displaying the same value Cust Account Statement. The...

Synchronization issue between Offline database and Store database Issue description We recently had a case where an offline POS refused to sync transactions to the store database after it came back online. This retail systemconsisted of a...

We have come across an issue where users are getting the following error message when trying to do any posting(Sales Order, Purchase Order, Journal) in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 F.e This error message is produced when doing a Sales Order invoicing...

In support, we have been seeing issues with printing Dynamics AX 2012 checks and I wanted everyone to know about what we have found. MICR characters not printing correctly: In previous versions of AX, the MICR font that was used was MICR E13B Normal...

We recently came across an issue when we are interrogating the model metadata through a batch process (which uses CIL), in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012/ 2012 Feature Pack. We get the following error: The expected type was str, but the encountered type was...

There are a number of places in AX for Retail POS where manager approval is needed to perform a task.  You may have noticed one of these when trying to exit the application.  You can tell that it’s a manager login by the slightly different appearance...

We recently released an important hotfix for AX for Retail 2009 R2 Refresh that is compatible with Dynamics AX 2009 Service Pack 1 Rollup 8 (RU8).  There are a few important notes to go along with this release that you should be aware of. You can...

Description: When installing the offline database, the installation fails with a timeout. Looking into the RetailDatabaseUtility.log, it comes with these messages. atabaseUtility, 4, 08/08/2012 07:24:48:833, An error occurred during provisioning...

We recently had a scenario where a customer wanted to be able to start the POS in training mode directly from an shortcut instead of having the user go in and select training mode from the menu.  They would then have two icons for POS:  one...

Hi all, Lately in support we have been getting lots of questions that tie back to configuration usage. This can manifest itself in many different ways: Not finding an object to use as a report datasource in Visual Studio 2010 while the object...

There is a function on the jobs form called Job Updating that has prompted many questions about just what the purpose of this function is. You can see it by opening a production or batch order that has been job scheduled, in the Action pane>Production...

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In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 we recently came across a case whereupon posting of On account Project Creditnotes, this was not possible and the process was aborted with an errormessage: “Update has been canceled because of an error, Posting has...