I’ve just received my second Microsoft MVP award (in Dynamics AX) and it may be a good time to answer a few common questions about the MVP program. MVP means Most Valuable Professional and it’s an award given by Microsoft to people active in Microsoft technical communities. People who blog about Microsoft technologies, answer questions …
In addition to parameters specified in data contracts, reports can also use queries. It’s very handy, because users can specify filters and sorting in exactly the same way as they’re used to from other places in Dynamics AX, they can use query expressions and so on. A relative common request is printing parameter values on …
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Imagine you have an SSRS report with a tablix, which contains a calculated field. For example, there is a date field (from a data set) and a calculated field showing the difference between the given date and the current date: The Diff field is calculated by the following expression: =DateDiff("d", Fields!GivenDate.Value, Today) Now we want …
AX 2012 introduced a new type of form control called “Replacement group”. It’s very handy, nevertheless quite a few developers still don’t know about it or are not sure how to use it effectively. This post is not going to details; the intention is rather to show something simple, though still from end to end. …