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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

Creating your help content


Creating your own help is a pretty simple exercise and doesn't require any special applications or tools. All you need is a copy of Microsoft Word and directions on where to find the help template that is embedded in the Dynamics AX help system.

In this recipe, we will show you how to create and publish your own help topics.

How to do it...

To create new help content, follow these steps:

  1. To find the help template that you can use to publish your own help, just open up the Dynamics AX help and type in template for help documentation.

  2. When the search results are returned, select the Templates for Help Documentation help topic.

  3. Scroll down through the help topic and there will be a link to a Dynamics Help Content Template.docm. Click on this link to download the help content template.

  4. This will open up the help template. Since this is just a Word document, you can create your help content by hand or just cut and paste from any existing documentation that you may have.

  5. On...

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