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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

Introduction


Power View is a new reporting tool that was introduced by Microsoft with the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Unlike many of the other reporting tools that are available, this one is designed so that users can create their own dashboards and reports without needing a lot of help, making everyone just a little more productive. Gone are the days where you have to export data from Dynamics AX to Excel, and then create a one-off dashboard when you want to analyze some data. Now you can create a dashboard in Power View, save it, and return to it any time you like.

With the R2 release of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, Power View was also embedded directly into the forms allowing users to create dashboards and reports on the fly without even knowing that they are using Power View.

In this chapter we will show how you can use Power View with the Dynamics AX 2012 R2 to create reports, how the users are able to save the reports for others to use, and also how you can export the reports...