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Recently, while working on creating some custom workflows for a client, I learned something new about updating date effective tables. Date effective tables have a lot of unique features that make them different from your run of the mill tables, but what I did not know was that the have different modes of being updated. These special modes exist so that their inherent date effectiveness remains intact, but sometimes it’s not so obvious.

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This blog post is a continuation of a previous post I wrote about earlier in the month. I’ve been working a lot lately with word templates and the Office Add-ins for Dynamics AX 2012. I must say, they are really neat to work with and I much prefer creating ad-hoc reports in excel and Sales Orders in word than in AX and SSRS now. So the first blog post, showed how to create a query and pull data into Microsoft word, then edit the word document and save it as a template for use later with any sales orders. Today I’m going to focus on how to generate the template from inside AX.

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Join us for a preview of Notes and Attachments in Dynamics GP.  What kinds of attachments can you make to transactions, where are they attached, what’s the difference between a Batch note, transaction level note and a series note?  Find out in our Dynamics GP Notes and Attachments webinar.

Title: Microsoft Dynamics® GP Notes and Attachments

Speaker: Kalyn Kelly, I.B.I.S. Associate Consultant

Workflow automation is invaluable when used inside of the Dynamics CRM system – but it can be dangerous and messy if used improperly. Join me while we discuss Best Practices for Workflow Automation inside of the Dynamics CRM 2011 environment. We’ll cover how to create parallel wait branches to avoid a large number of “Waiting” workflows, how to associate a “Canceled” step, and how to use timeouts.

Title: Process Automation Best Practices in Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 2011

Speaker: Kristen O’Connor, I.B.I.S. Consultant

Today’s post will cover ‘Supply Policies’ in AX 2012. In AX 2009, you might remember a setting for default order settings on an item. This is exactly what Supply policies are in AX 2012.

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Learn how to create a review and/or approval workflow for use with purchase requisitions.  We’ll take a look at how to create a workflow and a purchase requisition along with a practical example of the process in AX 2012.

Title: Purchase Requisitions and Workflows in Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012

Speaker: Andrew Stephens, I.B.I.S. Consultant

We’ll review RapidValue business process mapping functionality for Dynamics AX 2012.  RapidValue is a powerful BPM tool that can assist with end users with education/training.  RapidValue can be used to manage scope and gaps within implementation.

Title: RapidValue for Microsoft Dynamics® AX

Speaker: Alex Hunt, I.B.I.S. Consultant

What exactly is Available to Promise as a theory and in practice in AX 2012? We will run through different scenarios using ATP. Come and find out how ATP can help your business estimate better delivery dates for more on time shipments to your customers.

Title: Available to Promise in Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012

Speaker: Dani Richardson, I.B.I.S. Consultant

I recently experienced an issue with a Dynamics AX 2012 AOS instance when refreshing my WCF configuration in the AX Configuration Utility where the refresh was prevented by the utility not being able to locate a service on the WSDL port. In particular, it could not locate the AifGDS service at this URL: http://+:8102/DynamicsAx/Services/AifGDS. I tried to redeploy the service from the Service Groups node in the AOT, but the deployment failed because the endpoint port was busy. With the help of Microsoft, I was able to correct the issue.

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Today’s post will cover some security features that have been parameterized in Organization Administration. I recently watched a video from Convergence on new features of the Global Address Book and found some of the best take aways to be about security. In AX 2012, you have some basic Global Address book parameters and most of them deal with security. Keep reading.

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