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Learning MS Dynamics AX 2012 Programming

By : Mohammed Rasheed, Erlend Dalen
Book Image

Learning MS Dynamics AX 2012 Programming

By: Mohammed Rasheed, Erlend Dalen

Overview of this book

<p>This tutorial has been carefully structured to guide you through the basic features of AX development and get you started as quickly as possible. With this book, you will soon be able to develop and maintain comprehensive management solutions to enhance your Dynamics AX 2012 application's performance. Starting with a tour of the development environment, you'll gain a deep understanding of Dynamics AX tools and architecture, before getting to grips with X++ for deeper customization. You will also learn how to search, manipulate, and integrate data.</p> <p>The practical examples in this book take you through sample AX development projects and help you learn to create forms, reports, menu&nbsp; items, menus, and navigation pages. The book also helps you work with MorphX. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of the inner workings of Microsoft Dynamics AX—making your development simpler and faster, and your applications fast, reliable, and robust.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning MS Dynamics AX 2012 Programming
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Links
Debugger
Index

Working with inventory dimensions


One thing that you will have to learn sooner rather than later is how the inventory dimensions work. Basically, the InventDim table holds information about all the different dimensions that are related to an item. These dimensions can be divided into three types: item, storage, and tracking dimensions. By default, AX comes with the following dimensions:

  • Four item dimension: The dimensions are Color, Size, Style, and Configuration

  • Six storage dimension: The dimensions are Site, Warehouse, Location, Pallet, Inventory status, and License plate

  • Five tracking dimension: The dimensions are Batch, Serial, Owner, Inventory Profile, and GTD number

Note

The number of dimensions visible within the application will vary based on the configuration keys enabled.

Finding an inventory dimension

When combinations of these dimensions are needed in a journal or a transaction, we always check to see whether the combination already exists. If it does, we link to that record in the...