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Hi everyone :)
Packt Publishing has recently published 2 new book on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 SSRS: Developing SSRS Reports for Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Reporting Cookbook .
I have yet to read them, but Packt Publishing was kind enough to provide me with copies for review, so expect that in the coming weeks.
At first glance, Developing SSRS reports for Dynamics AX is a great book to get you started developing SSRS reports in AX, while the reporting Cookbook will provide you with must-know receipts you will use all the time when developing. One of the receipts came in handy on the very first day I got the book, so yeah, there is value in these books.
I will do my best to get a review out as soon as possible.
Thanks a lot to Packt Publishing and especially the authors Mukesh Hirwani and Kamalakannan Elangovan for writing and publishing these books.
This guest post is wirtten by my colleague Kristof Meesens. Thank you Kristof for contributing.
Lately I was in a deep debugging mode and used the cross references to find out some stuff.
The cross reference is a great help, but if you want to set some breakpoints it can take a lot of work.
For example you want to set a breakpoint everywhere where a field will be written.
You use the cross reference from the table/field and filter on the reference ‘write’
If you want to set a breakpoint you have to edit each line and set a breakpoint.
I created a class KrMeeSysBreakpoints that will be used to add breakpoints from a container.
The container must contain a Path, a Line number and a Boolean to enable the breakpoint.
This container will be added to another container that the class will use to loop
To use this functionality, you can add a button to the form of the cross references.
You can also call this functionality from de search form
An example screenshot from the cross references screen:
Download the XPO: SharedProject_KrMeeSetBreakpoints.xpo.
Hi all,
My oh my I have a secret guys, I do not like reading very much :). I want to, but I don’t. The books I bought and didn’t read, I tell you…
But I promised you a review, so I read the book and here it is. I’m exaggerating a bit though, the book is very good, so I had fun reading it.
So below is my review (the same one I posted on Amazon, where I gave it 4 stars). Keep in mind that I got a free copy of the book from Packt Publising, so that might influence my score.
Review
As a Dynamics AX developer, you are mostly involved in the development phase of a project. When I get involved in other phases I tend to get confused about what’s going on, how stuff is decided, organized, planned, etc. If you’re a developer and you want to learn about how projects should be run like I do, than this book is exactly what you’re looking for.
That being said, I don’t think this book is really written for developers. I found it a bit hard to follow at some points, mostly because a lot of new concepts are introduced. I would need a second read-through to get it all. Luckily, this book is definitely worth that.
A lot of project managers and senior profiles would definitely benefit from reading this book. It contains a lot of do’s and don’ts that are so true. You’ll notice while ready this book saying to yourself “exactly!”. If some things are going wrong on your projects, and I bet they are, you’ll certainly be able to use this book to improve your project. Or better still, implement Sure Step completely.
The best thing about this book is that it’s about both Sure Step and Dynamics AX, so it’s all pre-processed for AX projects. You also notice that the authors are really knowledgeable on both subjects.
One thing I didn’t like is that although you are installing Sure Step client in the first chapter, it is not really used again in the rest of the book. It’s hard to know what documents are actually referred to in the book. I expected doing more with the client while reading through the book.
All in all, this is a great book and I would recommend it to everyone on the team.
Hi all,
When installing SSRS on a installation where the database was a backup of a customor’s setup, I got the following error:
An error occurred while adding users ‘CustomerDomain\SomeUser’,'Domain\SomeUser2′ to the SQL Server Reporting Services DynamicsAXBrowser role in the folder DynamicsAX. The error is: The user or group name ‘CustomerDomain\SomeUser’ is not recognized..
The solution was to remove all records in the SysServerSessions table.
I had to restart the AOS too for the wizard to be able to connect to the AOS again, but that could just be a glitch on my machine.
I lost some time because of this error, so thanks a lot to Paul A. Noakes for posting the solution here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winservergen/thread/39babec6-c6ec-4a5d-a4f0-b3ea046e4e56/
Hi all,
Packt publishing has released another book about Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012: Implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with Sure Step 2012.
Packt was kind enough to give me a copy for review, so expect a review in the following weeks. If you’re as excited about the book as I am, you can order a copy from packtpub.com or amazon.com.
Thanks in advance to Keith Dunkinson and Andrew Birch for writing this book and sharing their knowledge.
Hi All,
This week, one of our customers got the following error when printing an SSRS report:
An item with the same key has already been added
Redeploying the report didn’t solve the issue. After restarting the AOS services and then redeploying the report, the issue was solved.
I’ve seen some forum/blog post about this, and I can confirm that this works.
This issue has popped up twice already, the previous time being a few months ago. No code was changed or anything, so I have no explanation for the error. Luckily, it’s easy to solve.
After a lot of hard work, the book Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services is finally available for purchase.
Those who pre-ordered will probably have downloaded the e-book already. Others will have to wait for their paper copy to arrive.
I myself don’t have a copy yet, so I’m watching my mail box just like you :). I have received my copies on the 10 jan 2012, yours should arrive shortly!
If you have questions or remarks about the book, just add a comment below or send me an email.
Happy holidays!
Order from Packt Publishing,
from amazon.com,
or from amazon.co.uk.
I’m very proud to present my first book: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services, co-authored with Kenny Saelen and published by Packt Publishing.
As the title suggests, the book is about services in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. The book covers the service architecture, AIF document services, custom services, system services, consumption of web services, SysOperation and much more. A more elaborate description of the contents can be found on the website of Packt Publishing.
We are still working on finalizing the book but it is already available for preorder. I’m happy there is a discount for preorders, so if you want the book, it’s best to preorder it.
I would like to thank everyone that is involved in the making of this book, especially coauthor Kenny and the reviewers.
As we are still finalizing the book, you all have the opportunity to contribute. If you have ideas or things you would like to see covered, post them below and if possible, we will take that into account.
Preorder from Packt Publishing,
or from amazon.
P.S. The cover is not final :-)
Hi all!
Tables contain many properties, one of which is the DeveloperDocumentation field. This field describes the purpose of the table, most of the time in the following format: “The [name of table] table contains [what the table contains]“.
When you don’t specify the developer documentation by creating a label, you will get the following best practice error:
Mandatory property DeveloperDocumentation not specified.
When you do create a label, you will get the following best practice warning:
DeveloperDocumentation label should not be marked to be translated.
Wait what?
The solution is to add {locked} in the description of the label using the label editor.
The developer documentation is aimed at developers and should not be translated, so create the label using the same value as the en-us label in all languages.
– This blog post is mostly a reminder to myself, I tend to forget this :)
Hi AX-enthusiasts!
Decisions Spring 2012 is a (free online) virtual conference about Dynamics products.
If you didn’t attend the conference in the past, be sure to check it out now because it is a great opportunity meet other AX professionals and expand your knowledge about AX.
The AX Day is on the 18th of June, you can register here.
See you there.
Hi all!
You might have noticed that this site was offline for a few hours,
that’s because it has been moved to an upgraded server.
Everything is up and running again, I hope this didn’t cause any inconveniences for you.
Thanks to SiteHosting for helping out.
Hi all!
When I was at the technical conference in Nice last year, I attended the session about performance (BRK224), and during a demo, something interesting was shown: how to add one BOF service as a runtime task to another BOF service in batch.
You can watch the session recording here, the code is shown about 44 minutes, 50 seconds in.
If you are unfamiliar with runtime tasks and how to use them, read my post about batch multithreading for an explanation. The basic principle stays the same, but in the example below, we will be using the Business Operation Framework (aka BOF, aka SysOperation) instead of RunBaseBatch.
The first thing you’ll need to do, is create 2 BOF services, one that will create the runtime tasks, and one that will represent the runtime task. If you don’t know how to do that, read this post: SysOperation Introduction. You can download the xpo file for the following example below.
This service will be our runtime task. It’s a regular BOF service, nothing special about it. In my example, the service operation contains some testing code so we can see if our service is working:
The data contract for this service has one member:
This is the service that will create the runtime tasks. Starting for a regular BOF service, make sure that the service class extends SysOperationServiceBase. This enables us to call the isExecutingInBatch() method later on.
The service operation that creates the runtime tasks looks like this:
For this demo, I created a loop that creates 5 runtime tasks.
When you execute this in batch, you can check the batch task history for the batch to see the tasks that have been created.
You can click the Parameters button to verify if the correct values were used to execute the task.
You can download the XPO here.
Links
Another example can be found on Kenny Saelen’s blog: Business Operation Framework and multi-threading
Related posts
AX2012: SysOperation part 1: Data Contracts and Service Operations
AX2012: SysOperation part 2: SysOperationServiceController
AX2012: SysOperation part 3: SysOperationAutomaticUIBuilder
AX2009: Batch multithreading (RunBaseBatch)
Hi all!
Wondering if you’re getting the right salary?
Nigel Frank is organizing its yearly salary survey for Dynamics professionals.
You’ll get a copy of the results for free if you take part in the survey, and you can also win some prizes.
Just click the banner to take part in the survey.
The session recordings and slides from the Technical Conference in Nice 2011 are available here:
https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/newsevents/news/MSDAXTechnicalConf2011Recordings
Some of you asked if the session recordings from the Technical Conference in Nice were available online, and I’m glad to inform you that they will be available on PartnerSource starting January 4th, 2012.
Just click this link in early January to view the recordings: https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/training/news/MSDYAX_TechConferenceFall.htm https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/newsevents/news/MSDAXTechnicalConf2011Recordings.
Some of the sessions were really interesting, so be sure to check it out!
Update 2012/01/09: The recordings are not online yet. Will keep you updated.
Update 2012/01/17: Available now!
