Working with AX 7 using VM

         This post based on a question one of my friend posted to me, If you are beginner or working in a company you want to access the dynamics ax 7, but you don't want to spend a penny. I hope most of the people able to access the dynamics AX 7 preview with azure and office 365 account fortunately I was one of them. What if I don't have any support from company or as individual still want to access dynamics ax 7, following steps will help.

1. Create an Dynamics CRM trial account or office 365 trial account, all those accounts will be expired, but you still have lot of time to play around with dynamics ax 7
2. Download dynamics ax 7 VHD from following link https://connect.microsoft.com/site1321/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=60417   For download you need FTM application which you can download freely from Microsoft website
3. Follow below link, This blog explains how you can configure dynamics ax 7 and get access.

         http://tech.alirazazaidi.com/running-dynamics-ax-7-ct8-vm-on-windows-8-1/

      In last step in the blog, you can use your trial accounts created on first step.

Some of the points needs to be noted

You can use this VM in client operating systems like Win7, win 10. you need to enable the hyper-v console from Turn features on or off in control panel.

You need minimum ram size 6 GB,

Error on deploying SSRS report

Problem: Once we completed all the Dynamics ax installation and configuration. we get into SSRS report deployment. Every setup was correct but we couldn't able to deploy the reports, instead we are getting the following error on management shell as well as event viewer

1. 1. An error occurred : The specified directory service attribute or value does not exist.If User Account Control (UAC) is enabled on the machine, close the application, right-click the application, and then click Run as administrator.
2. The deployment was aborted. You do not have privileges to deploy to server: *****. For deployment, you must have administrative rights to the SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) server. Contact your administrator to deploy.

Resolution:
We tried everything like, deploying the report directly from AOT, opening the AX with run as administrator as well as management shell. Nothing works. finally, I got the help from Microsoft support team.

Its a simple solution, but which is nowhere related to Dynamics ax box.

the service "Remote Registry" has to be running while deploying the report

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa940121(v=winembedded.5).aspx

Error while creating custom workflow

Problem: One of my colleague recently created a custom workflow (which is not shipped out of the box). he followed the step by step process to create the workflow. when he tries to run the workflow configuration he got the following error.

An unexpected error has occurred while opening the workflow. See the event log on the AOS and contact your system administrator to resolve the issue.

Resolution: ITs a simple resolution, just generate the CIL it will resolve the issue.

The above code requires the CIL for the classes we created.

While you creating the workflow wizard it will warn you for CIL compilation. As you have noticed you will not run into this issue.
 

Installation of Visual Studio tools on Dynamics AX 2012 R3 CU9

Its been a long time that i have written my last post. I was tied up with some work.

Problem: I was trying to install visual studio tools on Dynamics AX R3 CU9 version. But i was keep getting an error that "Installation package missing".

Solution: I was aware of the compatibility that CU9 works with VS 2013 Update 2 and above but my AX installer package keep giving me a error. So i got to know that VS tools for CU9 missing from my installer package. 

What it means that my installation folder doesnt contain the necessary VS tool files to install it. I downloaded CU9 slipstream file and copy the  folders to my installation folder then no longer i am seeing the error, I am able to install the VS tools. Following link helped me on the process. I hope you find this useful

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/axsupport/archive/2015/04/21/how-to-slip-stream-ax-2012-r3-cu-8.aspx

Dynamics AX community

Misconception and common guidelines on Dynamics AX 2012 infrastructures

Common misconception on infrastructures
Following points are gathered from the Microsoft training,
It includes some best practices also

1. Virtualization may be the smartest way of handling your infrastructures.
But having DAtabase server on virtualization seriously affect the performance of AX system. It reduces 14.5 % performance down compared to physical servers.

2. Putting more Memory and Processin...g power Wouldnt help if you dont know the sizing   guidelines
For example,
AOS Server Sizing,
5K Lines Per Hour Per Core (usually 4 to 12 core box)
2 GB Memory for Each Core (usually 4 to 8 GB per AOS instance)
User Concurrency is a good Marker. Based on Transaction Complexity, between 50 Users Per Core to 150 Users Per Core (average of 60)

3. Database Thumb rule is 2 to 6 GB memory for each CPU core. Next you have to set SQL Server maximum server memory correctly. Always leave a percentage for OS and other services running on the box

        

                                                                                                                            - to be continued

Total purchase invoice amount through X++

How to get a total invoice amount for a purchase order table, You had to take it in consideration for all the charges calculated (ex: tax). I tried to search the purchtable and purcline table for any existing methods. I found one class called purchtotals. there Microsoft calculating all the total amounts of incoice amount, order amount etc. Her...e is the code for this total calculation

PurchtotalsForm totalsForm;
;
totalsForm = PurchtotalsForm::newPurchTotalsForm(this, 1);
totalsForm.calctotals();
return totalsForm.invoiceAmountValue();

not only you can calculate invoice amount here is the list things you can get it from this class.

purchTaxTotal,

purchRoundOff,

purchTotalAmount,

purchTaxRoundOff,

purchCashDiscDate,

purchPrepayLimit,

purchPrepayAvailable,

purchTaxWithholdTotal

Import retail categories through code in dynamics ax 2012

Simple code to import Retail Product category

 EcoResCategory ecoResCategory
 ; 
 ecoResCategory.clear();
 ecoResCategory.initValue();
 ecoResCategory.initFromParent(EcoResCategory::findByName('HAL',ecoResCategory.CategoryHierarchy);
 ecoResCategory.Code = 'Test_categoryimport';
 ecoResCategory.Name = 'Test_Categoryimport';
 ecoResCategory.addToHierarchy();