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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

Creating a new help publisher ID


Help files are separated within the help service by publisher, allowing the user to further refine their help searches if they want, and also allowing publishers to update their help independently. In the following examples we will be creating new help content, so it's probably a good idea to register a new publisher within the help service before continuing.

In this recipe, we will show you how to create a new publisher within the help service.

Getting ready

All the help service files should be located in the following directory on the Dynamics AX server: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\DynamicsHelpServer\DynamicsAXHelpServer.

How to do it...

To create a new help publisher ID, follow these steps:

  1. Find the web.config file and open it up in an editor such as Notepad or Visual Studio.

  2. Within the dynamicsHelpConfig section of the web.config file will be a publishers section. There may be multiple entries here if there are add-ons installed for Dynamics AX, but in the base image...