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Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook

By : Murray Fife
Book Image

Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook

By: Murray Fife

Overview of this book

Dynamics AX is built on a number of foundation products from Microsoft that are used to make it bigger, better, and stronger than the average business system. Taking advantage of these products will make your life easier. Use these tools to maximize the efficiency of your business management, taking advantage of a powerful and centralized tool set. "Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook" will show you how to use tools that you already have to extend out Dynamics AX and discover potential new directions. You will be surprised at what you can do on a shoestring budget. The book will allow you to streamline your work processes, and use the system's powerful and centralised features to the advantage of your organization. "Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook" will show you how to maximize the potential of Dynamics AX with common and popular tools to enhance your business management systems. We will begin by exploring how to extend Dynamics AX out with SharePoint. After this, the book will guide you through important elements in maximizing business management efficiency, focusing on key aspects like reports, dashboards, and workflows. The book will then finish by teaching you how to customize your management systems, achieving a comprehensive coverage of the most important extension processes relevant to you and your business with very little programming. This is a book for those of you that want to make the most out of Dynamics AX by using what you already have, and without breaking the bank.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using Decomposition Trees to drill into the analytical charts


The analytical charts have a feature enabled that allows you to drill into any piece of data that you see and then explore it using any of the available dimensions in your cube. This is useful if you see data such as a large spike in sales, and then want to look at that data to see who the customer was that purchased the largest amount of product, and then maybe what the products were. All this is possible through the Decomposition Tree function, without leaving the dashboard chart.

In this quick recipe we will show how you can use the Decomposition Tree feature to explore the chart that we created in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

To drill into a PerformancePoint chart using the Decomposition Tree function, follow these steps:

  1. Right-click on the data element on the analytical chart that you want to explore to open up the pop-up menu, and navigate to the Decomposition Tree menu item.

  2. This will open up a new window allowing you...