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We have moved to a new blog site – http://blogs.msdn.com/axsupport/ 

Hello all viewers Thank you for the great support you have shown us. All the blog writers in EMEA are now moving over to post on our Global Microsoft Dynamics AX Support Blog Site http://blogs.msdn.com/axsupport/.   Add this new site to your favourites and spread the word.   Best regards EMEA Dynamics AX Technical Support Team
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AIF: How to add extra non database field into XSD. 

The idea is to add new extra field into schema definition and into whole AIF process but do not have this field part of table or query. It could be simple “counted” field. For now, we will start with new table and new query. When you generate document services by wizard, make sure that Generate
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New Content for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 : November 2011 

One of our technical writers, Margo Crandall, has posted the list of new and updated content for Dynamics AX on TechNet and MSDN for the month of November 2011. For a list of topics consult her blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/axsupport/archive/2011/12/02/content-news-november.aspx   Previous posts: October 2011 September 2011        
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New Content for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 : October 2011 

Hi everyone, Updated and new content for Microsoft Dynamics AX has been posted to TechNet and MSDN. We have published many new topics again this month. The following table contains links to each group of topics within the post. Audience Approximate number of topics published Security role reference 88 System Administrator topics 35 Application User
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How to remove notifications (EventInbox) older than one month 

In previous post the solution was to run batch job Administration > Periodic > Notification clean-up as a part of your maintenance plan. Now we have follow up question: how to set up this batch job to remove messages older than 1 month. To achieve it we can use static function monthRange (public static str
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Performance (Timeout) Problem with Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal 

Some time ago we got problems with performance on Microsoft Dynamics Ax Enterprise Portal. The Microsoft Dynamics AX client was working perfectly fine and the were no delays. But as soon we got to an Enterprise Portal the issue started. Enterprise Portal Role Center was opening very slowly. First of all we always advise to
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New Content for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 : September 2011 

One of our technical writers, Margo Crandall, has posted the list of new and updated content for Dynamics AX on TechNet and MSDN for the month of September. For a list of topics consult her blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/axsupport/archive/2011/09/20/content-news-september.aspx    
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How to reduce the file size of PDF files generated by AX 2009 

PDF files generated from Microsoft Dynamics AX can get quite large in size. In this thread I share some hints on how you can potentially reduce the size of the generated PDF file. Images During PDF generation each image will be temporarily converted to a 24bit BMP file and afterwards stored as a JPG. So it does
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A CLR error occurred while invoking the scheduling engine 

We came across this issue recently. When running the Production Job scheduling process you experience error  “A CLR error occurred while invoking the scheduling engine.” and the exception details look like this System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation —>  Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.ManagedInterop.ContainerNotValidException  The Microsoft Dynamics container being referenced is not valid at Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.ManagedInterop.Container.get_Count() The
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Where is the System ID number sequence used? Will it run out? 

 I was asked some questions recently about the “System ID” number sequence in AX – I don’t think this information was available anywhere else so I’ll share it through this post:  Q: Where is the BASI_1 number sequence (which is the “System ID” specified in the basic module) used? It seems to be increasing
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Using skipDeleteActions with doDelete still calls the delete actions 

Recently we came across an issue where running code like this: Unit unit; ; select firstonly forupdate unit where unit.UnitId == ‘cl’; unit.skipDeleteActions(true); unit.doDelete(); This results in the delete still being called on Tables\UnitConvert (via the cascaded delete action on Tables\Unit). This is because SkipDeleteActions() only works when using a set based operation (like delete_from)