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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 scorecard in PerformancePoint


The standard cubes that are delivered with Dynamics AX include a number of predefined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that you can start using right away. An easy way to display KPIs is through a scorecard, which you can easily create through the PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer.

In this recipe, we will show you how you can connect to the default cubes to find the KPIs that have already been defined, and use these within a scorecard Dashboard Item to create your own personal scorecard.

How to do it...

To create a new scorecard through PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer, follow these steps:

  1. Open up the PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer, and then open up the workspace created in the last recipe that has the Dynamics AX cubes already defined.

  2. From the Create tab, click on the Scorecard icon in the Dashboard Items group to start creating a new scorecard.

  3. When asked to select the Scorecard template, choose the Analysis Services template.

  4. This will start...