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You're reading from Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook This is a brilliantly accessible book, packed with practical examples, that's perfect for business professionals who want to make more of the advanced features of Dynamics AX to save money and increase management efficiency.

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782168331

Length 314 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Dynamics AX

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Murray Fife

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Extending Out with SharePoint FREE CHAPTER

2. Reports and Dashboards

3. Dashboards, Charts, and Scorecards

4. Communication and Collaboration

5. Using Cases to Manage Incidents and Requests

6. Organizing Your Workflows

7. Reporting in Office

8. Talking to the Outside World

9. Creating Help

10. Web Services and Forms

11. Role Center Personalization and Customization

Index

Creating a new help publisher ID

Help files are separated within the help service by publisher, allowing the user to further refine their help searches if they want, and also allowing publishers to update their help independently. In the following examples we will be creating new help content, so it's probably a good idea to register a new publisher within the help service before continuing.

In this recipe, we will show you how to create a new publisher within the help service.

Getting ready

All the help service files should be located in the following directory on the Dynamics AX server: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\DynamicsHelpServer\DynamicsAXHelpServer.

How to do it...

To create a new help publisher ID, follow these steps:

Find the web.config file and open it up in an editor such as Notepad or Visual Studio.
Within the dynamicsHelpConfig section of the web.config file will be a publishers section. There may be multiple entries here if there are add-ons installed for Dynamics AX, but in the base image...