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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

Exporting a Power View report to PowerPoint


If you spend your days recreating the same presentation, by refreshing the data in reports from Dynamics AX and then reformatting the information, then Power View has a very cool feature that you will be able to take advantage of that allows you to export any of the dashboards that you create to PowerPoint.

This is not your ordinary export that just takes a screen capture of your current view and then pastes it into your presentation, instead Power View is embedded into your presentation. If you have security to access the data, then your PowerPoint becomes an interactive dashboard whenever you enter into presentation mode. If you deliver the presentation to someone who does not have access to the source data, then the reports look just as they did when you last updated the data.

You can use this to create internal review presentations, or even start with a template and then filter the data individually to be delivered to customers or vendors for...