Dawn Langlie articles

Dawn Langlie
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Authorize.Net is changing the URL for submitting credit card transactions 

Authorize.Net issued an email to all developers of a change to improve reliability and performance.  The change only affects users of Dynamics AX2009 using the Authorize.Net credit card interface.  Authorize.Net recommends the change now, it will become automatic in June 2016. Please read the complete details of the Authorize.Net notice below: http://community.developer.authorize.net/t5/The-Authorize-Net-Developer-Blog/Important-Authorize-Net-Networking-Change/ba-p/51272 To change your settings, modify
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Trade Allowance Management Blog Series – Setup 

Welcome to the first in a series of Trade Allowance Management blogs.  In this blog, I will be discussing required and optional setup for Trade Allowance Management agreements. You can use the Trade allowance management module to manage discounts that are offered by vendors to distributors, wholesalers, and retail customers.  You can use Trade allowance
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AX 2012 for Retail: “The number for one time customer is missing” and payment posts with earlier date than sales invoice when posting Retail Statements 

We have seen a few different issues lately when customers have unmarked “Delivery Date Control” in System administration>Setup>Licensing>License configuration > Trade. The first issue that can happen is the following error when posting the Retail statement:   ” The number for one-time customer is missing.”   The error means that AX cannot find the default
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AX for Retail 2012 R3: Category Price Rules Expiration Issue and Old Trade Agreement Still Active. 

When using Category price rules to update sales trade agreements and selecting to expire previous trade agreements, you must manually post the expired price/discount agreement journal before the original trade agreement is expired. NOTE:  If the original trade agreement was not created using the same Category price rule, the Expiration Journal will not be created
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AX for Retail: Size Barcode setup and creation with number sequence 

Below are steps to create a barcode for an item that tracks the Size variant and use a number sequence to automatically create the new barcodes. 1. Set up the bar code Mask characters: Retail >>Setup>>Bar codes and labels>>Mast characters a.  Product = I b.  Size = Z 2.  Set up the Bar Code Mask
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AX for Retail Barcode Font Printing Issues 

For those who have seen the blog that I created for Payables Checks issues with MICR fonts, I wanted to share some information on AX for Retail barcodes not printing correctly. If the report contains special fonts like MICR and Bar Codes and print correctly when printed to the screen, but do not render correctly when printed
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AX for Retail 2012 R2 Cannot see Variants when selecting a Transfer Order in POS 

Thank you to Brett Christiansen for helping with this blog KB 2829678 fixes an issue with Variants not showing on Transfer orders.  AX 2012 CU6 includes this hotfix. With the fix installed on my machine, I had an issue where an older item on a transfer order in the demo data would show the variants
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Adding a period to the Aging Period Definition and receive the error: “Unlimited can be used only in the first and last period” or “Unit must be less than 0” 

Creating periods in the Aging Period Definition window can be kind of cumbersome. Follow the steps below to create periods in the Aging Period Definition window.: 1.  Remove all of the periods that you have added. 2.  Click the Add button under Periods fast tab and enter the following a.  Period – Current b.  Unit
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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Retail Statement Posting Error: Account number for transaction type Ledger journal does not exist 

When posting a statement in Dynamics AX for Retail Headquarters, if accounts are not setup properly the following are a couple errors that can occur:      Account number for transaction type Customer balance does not exist.     Problem with posting to account nu8mber with name .      Account number for transaction type Ledger journal does not