February 26, 2011 in Blog by Amer

My AX Session at the ROCS2

Yesterday I provided an online session for the technical community in Saudi Arabia.

This session will be the beginning of a series of Dynamics sessions covering most of the technical areas like MorphX, Workflow, EP, Reporting… etc.

The session I gave yesterday provides an overview about the Dynamics AX from technical perspective. I described the Architecture, IDE, X++, EP, Reporting and BI, and Workflow.

You can download the PowerPoint file from here.

February 6, 2011 in Blog by Amer

Populating Data from Different Companies

I came across a case where I needed to select a field value from different companies in Dynamics AX.

Simply what you have to do is the following (I choose ItemId to be taken from different companies as an example):

1. Create a field in your table with an ExtendedDataType than has NO relation, MyNewItemIdEDT in our example
2. Create an ItemCompany field, put the extended data type as dataAreaId
3. Create a Relation in that table with the following elements (Normal relation elements):
   • <<NewTableName>>.MyNewItemId == InventTable.ItemId
   • <<NewTableName>>. ItemCompany = InventTable.dataAreaId

By this you would be able to select the ItemId field based on the selected dataareaid without writing any code even.