With the new concept of surrogate (foreign) keys in AX 2012. We now use the RecId for setting up relationships. If you wondered how it affects your filters in the query selection. Below is an example of what it looks like. You will have both the RecId and the Primary key of the related table available for selection. First time you select it it will look like this.It shows the main table and field name. .... ... Read full post http://dynamicsnavax.blogspot.com/2012/06/selection-query-with-foreign-key-ax.html

I was trying to write a switch statement for a computed column recently. Below is the code I used in the end. .... .... Read full post http://dynamicsnavax.blogspot.com/2012/06/view-computed-column-switch-statement.html

This describes how to create custom Help documentation and how to publish that documentation to the Microsoft Dynamics AX Help server. The Help documentation you create has to work with both the Help server and viewer. The Help server is a centralized Web service that responds to requests for Help documentation. In addition, you put your custom Help documentation files on the Help server. The Help viewer is an application that is deployed with the Microsoft Dynamics AX client. The Help viewer displays documentation when you request Help from the application workspace. Walk…

I had some weird problems on my local environment. I have multiple environments with the same project. I just did a clean up and delete the files under the following folders. %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft Dynamics AX\ %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Dynamics AX\ .... Read full post http://dynamicsnavax.blogspot.com/2012/06/visual-studio-temp-project-files-ax.html