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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

Adding conditional decisions to a workflow


Sometimes you want to have a workflow act one way, sometimes in another way. Usually, this is because of the value of a field in the record. Maybe you want one person to approve a step, unless the dollar value is above a certain amount, in which case it goes to another.

You can do this by using the Conditional decision element to create routes through the workflow.

In this recipe, we will show how you can use this element to create multiple workflow processes within one.

How to do it...

To add a conditional decision to a workflow, follow these steps:

  1. Open your workflow in design mode, and from the Workflow elements palette, select the Conditional decision element and drop it onto your workflow.

  2. Re-link the workflow process so that the Conditional decision 1 element is a step in the workflow process.

  3. Select the Conditional decision 1 node so that the Basic Settings button shows up in the Workflow ribbon bar within the Modify elements group. Then, click...