DAXeam was well represented at Convergence 2012 in Texas. Check out the DAXeam page http://www.eclipsecomputing.com.au/daxeam/pages/home.aspx Full post: http://dynamicsnavax.blogspot.com/2012/03/daxeam-at-convergence-2012-ax-2012.html

If you created your own online help and created your own table of content. In certain cases where you have bullet points in your document, this is considered as special characters. This may corrupt the metatag in the htm file. See screenshot below the description metatag takes the first 300 characters to be indexed (to be displayed as result text when you search on it)........ Full post http://dynamicsnavax.blogspot.com/2012/03/online-help-table-of-content-not.html

t was a little confusing at first what the Feature pack contained. This was release recently on in 1st February 2012. This release is targeted at the five key industries: Manufacturing, Distribution, Services Industries, Public Sector, and Retail. This release also incorporates Microsoft Dynamics ERP RapidStart Services. One major thing you will notice when you install the Feature pack it is the same build as Cumulative update 2 ...... Full blog post : http://dynamicsnavax.blogspot.com/2012/03/cumulative-update-2-vs-feature-pack-ax.html

Make use of form best practice when you are created/updating forms in AX 2012. It isn't 100% bullet proof solution but it does get rid of your most common form problems. Also keep in mind that Microsoft doesnt deliver all their forms conforming to the Form best practice. Some form are just different. Right click on the form. Add-Ins > Check form style best practices The form will open up. The style you set in the form design property will be defaulted and analysed. Some basic violations can be fixed right from this form. For example, the New button label must be @SYS000001…

I would highly recommend this parameter be turned on all development environments. It will help you catch invalid field access through code before they reach testing or production. Original post http://dynamicsnavax.blogspot.com/2012/03/check-invalid-field-selection-ax-2012.html

There is a new tool released. The Security Development Tool for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 is intended to help you more easily create and maintain security artefacts such as roles, duties, and privileges. The tool displays entry point permissions for a given role, duty, or privilege. Additional tools guide you through updates of the access levels for entry points. You can also use the tool to test a newly created or modified security role, duty, or privilege from the same interface, without using a different test user account. Additionally, you can use the tool to record business process…