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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook

By : Mindaugas Pocius
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook

By: Mindaugas Pocius

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics AX provides a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for mid-size and larger organizations. Dynamics AX implementations are used worldwide by thousands of customers. With the new version - Dynamics AX 2009 - the system is due to expand even more rapidly. Every new implementation requires some level of customization, and all organizations want this to be done to the highest standards using proven approaches. This step-by-step guide will help you manage your company's ERP information and operations efficiently, and solve your business process problems in an effective and quick way. This book focuses on commonly used custom modifications in major Dynamics AX modules. This book contains commonly used bits of code which were real-world tested in at least one successful Dynamics AX implementation. Many of the recipes were deployed in many implementations and even across several versions of Dynamics AX. The examples in this book cover various areas of Dynamics AX to help developers not only learn about programming, but also about the functional side of Dynamics AX. The book should help developers who already know the basics of Dynamics AX programming to step up to the next level. The recipes allow you to look at the development from the perspective of business processes. You will learn to enhance your user interface using various Dynamics AX UI elements. Managing your data and functions will become easier. You will also get numerous development tips and tricks from a Dynamics AX development expert.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Sending email using Outlook


In most projects it is required to send emails using Dynamics AX. It might be business alerts, monthly reports, customer statements, and so on. Dynamics AX has a number of ways to send emails. One of them is to use Microsoft Office Outlook. Although Dynamics AX supports tight integration with Outlook contacts, calendar, and tasks as a part of the CRM module, emailing using Outlook is still very basic across the application. Normally, required emailing functions have to be implemented as additional application customizations.

In this recipe, we will see how emails can be sent from Dynamics AX using Outlook. Dynamics AX provides an API to access the Outlook application. We will use it to create a function that allows sending template-based personalized emails to customers.

Getting ready

Before we start with this recipe, we need to create an email template. This is standard Dynamics AX functionality. Open Basic | Setup | E-mail templates, and create the following record...