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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


Power View and PowerPivot are tools that are simple enough for almost everyone to use, and allow you to quickly build reports and dashboards that are useful. It becomes even more useful to the power users since they can also create their own data sources within Excel, a tool that everyone is familiar with using.

Once you start creating dashboards, you will discover that there are a lot of cool features that you can take advantage of. You may want to try:

  • Adding external Azure services, XML feeds, and Dynamics AX ODataQueries to your PowerPivot data sources. This allows you to blend in dynamic reference data, such as weather, currency rates, or Twitter searches to make your dashboards more informative.

  • Turning URL columns into pictures to allow your users to filter out the information visually rather than having lo look at codes.

  • Using geographic information, such as city, state, and country to create geo-mapped reports.

Also, you don't just have to use Power View within Dynamics AX. Since...

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