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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

Flagging Dynamics AX contacts for synchronization


You probably don't want all of the contacts from Dynamics AX to be moved over to Outlook, probably just the contacts that you are working with. Dynamics AX gives you the option to flag the contacts that you want to synchronize directly from the contact management screens. In this recipe we will show you how you can do this.

How to do it...

To flag your Dynamics AX contacts for synchronization to Outlook, follow these steps:

  1. From the Sales and Marketing module, open up the My contacts list page from the Contacts folder in the Common group.

  2. Select the contacts that you would like to synchronize:

  3. Click on the Add to Microsoft Outlook contacts button in the Include group of the Contact ribbon bar tab. You should get a dialog box showing how many new contacts have been flagged for synchronization: