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Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook

By : Murray Fife
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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

Summary


InfoPath is an incredibly useful tool for creating forms and gathering information. When you use it in conjunction with Dynamics AX and just a little bit of coding, it becomes even more useful because you are able to create forms that feed back into the database.

In addition to what we showed you in this chapter, you can also:

  • Publish your forms to a SharePoint Forms repository allowing users to access the latest form templates from a centralized location. If you change the template on SharePoint, the users' local copies will also be upgraded ensuring that they always have the latest version.

  • Host the InfoPath forms on a SharePoint site, allowing users to fill in the forms without even having InfoPath installed. This allows you to create forms that customers, vendors, or employees could fill out that could update Dynamics AX.

  • Capture signatures through pen-based input devices such as tablets and Surface devices. The signatures can be stored as JPEG files and even posted to the Dynamics...