AX 2012 - Quick bites (Flash news 9)

AX 2012 - Quick bites ----- Trying to coat bitter-pill (AX 2012) with sweetener (some catchy names) to promote reading

1.       Individual users can set time zone preferences without affecting the central AOS time zone for each company.

2.       The organization model represents a paradigm shift in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, most of the application data was related to the company (DataAreaID) concept, and it was easy to duplicate this data by traversing all tables where the “SaveDataPerCompany” metadata property was set to True.

3.       Because of the changes resulting from the new organization model, the data is not purely related to legal entities, and a company is semantically equivalent to a legal entity. The data is related to one or more types of organizations, or to none (shared tables). Therefore, the duplication of data based on the property is not valid.

4.       As a consequence of the above, duplicating the company account functionality has been removed in AX 2012. 

5.       Although there is no replacement for duplicate company feature, duplication of the company is possible in AX 2012. By using the import and export feature (I mean .dat & .def backup) the users can create duplicate reference, setup, and master data by copying data between two companies. 

6.       You can now create multiple address books instead of creating virtual companies, and you can control access to address books by granting privileges based on teams or legal entities.

7.       In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, you can define any number of address books and assign teams or legal entities to them, so that you can control which workers have access to specific address books.

8.       The Data Crawler has been replaced by the Search feature, which enables searching across data and metadata (forms and reports). Do not search for Data crawler in AX 2012.

9.       Resource capabilities (constraints) can be attached to the resources (previously called as work centers). The resource capabilities is a shared table and can be used across the legal entities.

10.   Employee Master (HCMWorker) – is  shared form across the legal entities. So, you can use worker/employee across the legal entities with ease.