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Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook

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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168331
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Murray Fife Murray Fife
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Summary


InfoPath is an incredibly useful tool for creating forms and gathering information. When you use it in conjunction with Dynamics AX and just a little bit of coding, it becomes even more useful because you are able to create forms that feed back into the database.

In addition to what we showed you in this chapter, you can also:

  • Publish your forms to a SharePoint Forms repository allowing users to access the latest form templates from a centralized location. If you change the template on SharePoint, the users' local copies will also be upgraded ensuring that they always have the latest version.

  • Host the InfoPath forms on a SharePoint site, allowing users to fill in the forms without even having InfoPath installed. This allows you to create forms that customers, vendors, or employees could fill out that could update Dynamics AX.

  • Capture signatures through pen-based input devices such as tablets and Surface devices. The signatures can be stored as JPEG files and even posted to the Dynamics...

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