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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

Summary


PerformancePoint is a very flexible reporting and dashboarding tool that allows you to quickly get information out to the users. However, in this chapter we have just scratched the surface of what you are able to do when it is paired up with Dynamics AX.

Once you have mastered these examples, you might also want to try:

  • Creating filters that can be used to further refine your results

  • Linking dashboard elements together so that selecting one item also filters others

  • Using Reporting Services reports as dashboard elements, allowing you to use the Reporting Services controls, such as gauges and maps within your dashboards, and to also use hyperlinks to link to the Dynamics AX forms

  • Attaching secondary databases that you may be using in conjunction with Dynamics AX, including other MSSQL databases, MS Access data sources, Excel worksheets, and more

Once you have your dashboards, charts, and views built, you can also re-use them in other ways such as:

  • Embedding them in your companies' intranet...