This is a follow-up from my previous post AX for Retail 2012 R2: Installing the Real-time Service and should give you some tips if you run into problems installing and configuring the Real-time Service. Before getting into those tips, I want to go through...

Have you ever set up or wondered about setting up a customer membership discount and wondered why there are 3 discount fields? In this blog I will show you how to set up a basic membership discount using a customer price group We will need to set up...

There may be a need at some point where POS terminals are either not used during a season or decommissioned indefinitely. In the instance where you would need to remove a terminal, we do not recommend deleting this terminal from AX Retail Headquarters...

When customers migrate from AX4.0 to AX2012, using weighted average as their costing method, and run inventory closing, they may notice differences in settlements between the two systems even though they use exactly the same data. This is due to the differences...

Since October 1st 2012 the Netherlands VAT rate has changed from 19% to 21%. In order to update the NL VAT report in AX2009 & AX2012 to reflect this, the text on the VAT report needs to be changed from '1a Belast met 19%' to '1a Belast met 21...

The new upgrade guide has been released at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14599 and has very detailed steps on performing an in-place upgrade of AX 2012/AX 2012 FP to AX 2012 R2. Download a copy and ensure it is dated December...

Introduction Commodity codes is one of the many areas in which functionality has changed a bit compared to earlier versions of Dynamics AX. As such, it is only natural that some questions and doubts arise. The purpose of this blog article is to...

In AX2012, the country/region context has replaced the country configuration keys. In earlier version of AX configuration keys had to be enabled manually and they were installation wide. If the installation included legal entities from multiple countries...

Workaround: - Will need to replace the axsetupsp.exe file of the hotfix installation files which is encountering this issue - Download hotfix KB2786562 - Copy the axsetupsp.exe file from KB2786562, support folder - Replace the axsetupsp.exe...

Example of issue: 1. Create a view that joins 2 related tables. I used CustTable as root table, and custTrans as related table. 2. Do not add any fields to the view. 3. Right click on the view and select open. Actual: You receive an error message...

Possibly the biggest change with AX for Retail 2012 R2 is the re-architecting of the Retail Transaction Service. The first thing you will notice is that the name has been changed: Retail Transaction Service is now Commerce Data Exchange: Real-time...

Introduction The payment of commission for services or products sold is a common way to reward sales people. The purpose of this blog post is to provide some guidance and inspiration as to how one might go about customizing the Retail POS to link...

Couple of times we saw the issue while running axsetup.exe to install Enterprise Portal that is failing with error: Entering function CurrentUserAlias Leaving function CurrentUserAlias Creating new Enterprise Portal Site with following the parameters...

Lately we encounter problem when integrating CRM connector with Dynamics AX 2009 EE layer. While running map AX Enumerated Values to Picklist you getting error in CRM Connector. The map does not synchronize correctly and the values are not available...

In the old X++ framework (Dynamics AX 2009 and earlier) when you wanted to display company logo on report you could use display method on table. In Dynamics AX 2012 that would not work. For RDP reports you could add CompanyLogo field into temporary...

This article is an addition to the blog post ‚Beginning-ending balance control‘. After getting back the ‚Belgium feature‘ also for other countries we detected that the calculation for field ‚Balance+journal‘ is not...

We've posted additional Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 content on TechNet and MSDN . The New, Changed, and Deprecated Features guide has been updated to include R2 features. The guide contains new features for 2012, the 2012 Feature Pack, and 2012 R2...

When fetching data from the StoreDB you might see this message. The reason is normally configuration keys or added system fields. By adding the code suggestion, the system will report all the columns that are incorrect and you can then take action by...