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

        

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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();

import barcode through X++ in dynamics ax 2012

Some simple code for barcode import

 inventItemBarCode.barcodeSetupId = RetailInventTable::find(itemCode).BarcodeSetupId;
 inventItemBarCode.inventDimId = InventDim::findOrCreate(inventDim).inventDimId;
 inventItemBarCode.RetailVariantId = InventDimCombination::find(itemCode,inventItemBarCode.inventDimId).RetailVariantId;
 inventItemBarCode.itemId = itemCode;
 inventItemBarCode.description = InventTable::find(itemCode).defaultProductName();
 inventItemBarCode.UnitID = InventTable::find(itemCode).salesUnitId();
 inventItemBarCode.qty = qty;
 inventItemBarCode.useForInput = NoYes::Yes;
 inventItemBarCode.useForPrinting = NoYes::Yes;
 inventItemBarCode.itemBarCode = barcode;
 if(inventItemBarCode.validateWrite())
 inventItemBarCode.insert();

Partial sales order through code in Dynamics ax 2012 R2

I had been searching the internet to find the code. But i couldnt, every code leads to full invoice or line by line invoice. so i did some exploring to come up with a below code it will invoice partial quantity

I updated the partial sales invoice through code...

 SalesFormLetter salesFormLetter =  SalesFormLetter::construct(DocumentStatus::Invoice);
 SalesTable salesTAble;
 SalesParmLine parmLine;
 ;
 salesTable = SalesTable::find('FUAE-000002');
 salesFormLetter.salesTable(salesTAble);
 salesFormLetter.transDate (systemDateGet());
 salesFormLetter.specQty (SalesUpdate::All);
 //If you want proforma you can enable the code
 //salesFormLetter.proforma (true);
 //salesFormLetter.printFormLetter (true);
 salesFormLetter.createParmUpdateFromParmUpdateRecord(salesFormLetter.s alesParmUpdate());
 salesFormLetter.initParmSalesTable(salesTAble);

 salesFormLetter.initParameters(salesFormLetter.salesParmUpdate(),Printout::After);
 salesFormLetter.initLinesQuery();
 while select forUpdate parmLine where parmLine.ParmId == salesFormLetter.parmId()
 {
 ttsBegin;
 parmLine.DeliverNow = 10;
 parmLine.setQty(parmLine.salesParmTable().ordering, salesFormLetter.SalesParmUpdate().creditRemaining);
 parmLine.setInventDeliverNow();
 parmLine.setLineAmount(); 
 parmLine.update();
 ttsCommit;
 }
 salesFormLetter.run();

Exchange rate update add-on

Problem:
 
I was asked to create exchange rate add-on, It will update the exchange rate from online

• This update add-on should have the ability to work automatically (without human intervention)
• Given option to manual update also
• Average update and Closing rate update for consolidation companies.

Solved: 

There is no inbuilt functionality for exchange rate updating in dynamics AX 2009. Following are the screenshots and functionality of the add-on that I created,

• Configurable in batch job so that it automatically updates the exchange rate in exchange rate table. 
• Based on the batch job, it will update the value in exchange rate table.
• Notifications, errors and warnings will be updated in the log and shown to peoples.
• Manual update option would be given to end user
• Staging table : Its the mediator between actual exchange rate table and downloaded data from internet. It also can be viewable from the content pane 

 

If anybody need this add-on contact me on (mdashraf@live.in, india - 919043440941)
It is two hour development cost only

Following are the advantage of deploying this add-on to your company

• It is automatic and highly customizable by end user
• Easy deployment package
• Enhancement can be made according to the customer (within the cost of this add-on)
• support will be provided at free of cost
• I am a freelancer so interested customer can contact me for apart from this development also

ERD (Entity relationship diagrams) for dynamics ax tables

     Yesterday I read the news from Microsoft dynamics ax community forum that Microsoft has published ER diagrams for some dynamics ax tables. so I just want to share with you guys. It includes 30 database ERDs for tables in dynamics ax. Its very helpful for developer like us to finding the relations between tables when we are trying to customize. here I given the link go and enjoy

ERDs-  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=296623