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Learning MS Dynamics AX 2012 Programming

By : Mohammed Rasheed, Erlend Dalen
Book Image

Learning MS Dynamics AX 2012 Programming

By: Mohammed Rasheed, Erlend Dalen

Overview of this book

<p>This tutorial has been carefully structured to guide you through the basic features of AX development and get you started as quickly as possible. With this book, you will soon be able to develop and maintain comprehensive management solutions to enhance your Dynamics AX 2012 application's performance. Starting with a tour of the development environment, you'll gain a deep understanding of Dynamics AX tools and architecture, before getting to grips with X++ for deeper customization. You will also learn how to search, manipulate, and integrate data.</p> <p>The practical examples in this book take you through sample AX development projects and help you learn to create forms, reports, menu&nbsp; items, menus, and navigation pages. The book also helps you work with MorphX. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of the inner workings of Microsoft Dynamics AX—making your development simpler and faster, and your applications fast, reliable, and robust.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning MS Dynamics AX 2012 Programming
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Links
Debugger
Index

The trade agreements


The trade agreements module in AX is where prices and discounts are handled. An item can, for example, have a default sales price / discount that is valid for all customers. This information is then stored in the InventTableModule table (see the InventTable entity schema under the The inventory module section of this chapter).

At other times, however, you may like to give either a certain customer, a group of customers, or perhaps all customers special prices/discounts on an item, a group of items, or all items. This is achieved by setting up trade agreements in the PriceDiscTable table.

Note

A price cannot be set up for a group of items or all items only for a specific item. Discounts can, however, be set up on all items, a group of items, or on a specific item.

The trade agreements can also be combined so that, for example, multiple discounts are used to give the customer the correct price. This is done by checking the Find Next flag in the trade agreements form. Explaining...