Can Dynamics AX 2012 work with Office 365?
Office 365 provides secure anywhere access to Microsoft Office capabilities including document collaboration. Users can create, store, and edit Office documents online in Office 365. SharePoint Online...
View ArticleData Migration for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
Partick Nelson recently made a Dynamics AX Data Migration white paper available on InformationSource. Data Migration for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 includes sections on import via the Excel Add-in,...
View ArticleResponding to keyboard shortcuts in Dynamics AX
In Dynamics AX, the use of shortcut keys triggers a task. Some tasks do things, like Ctrl+F3 opening the advanced query window, while other tasks have been added just to allow override as needed, like...
View ArticleDynamics AX 2012 R2 Excel Add-in – Copy and paste and the addition of large...
We did a lot of performance improvements for the Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Excel Add-in, but there is still one scenario that causes a lot of trouble… copy and paste. When a large data set is pasted into a...
View ArticleDynamics AX: Turning off specific tasks
Recently I had a someone ask me how to turn off or disable the Export to Excel task. Unfortunately, like most tasks, it can’t be disabled via the options dialog like the Document handling subsystem can...
View ArticleDynamics AX 2012 R2: Office, SharePoint, and Lync versions supported
I just completed my Office Interop presentation at Convergence in New Orleans and I had a number of people asking about version support for Office and SharePoint since I demonstrated in Microsoft...
View ArticleDynamics AX: Copy+Paste vs Export to Excel
I had a question from a customer recently: “On a Details Form, copy+paste gives me more fields than Export to Excel, so why would I use Export to Excel?”. Below was my answer… Copy+paste will give you...
View ArticleDynamics AX 2012 R2: Improved Office Interop capabilities
Dynamics AX 2012 R2 has been out for a while now, but I realized that I hadn’t posted updated information about its Office Interop capabilities here. In Dynamics AX 2012 R2 we responded to feedback...
View ArticleDynamics AX 2012 R2: Key Office 365 scenarios
Dynamics AX 2012 R2 has a number of new and improved Office Interop capabilities. They enable a number of key scenarios for Office 365 that I wanted to list here. If you have other scenarios that you’d...
View ArticleDynamics AX 2012 R2: Budget plan entry via Excel
The Excel Add-in enables users to interact with services to pull data from AX into Excel, enter and edit data in Excel, and then publish that data back into AX. One of the best usages of the Excel...
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