Content news: December

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
System Administrator topics	6
Application User topics	116
Developer topics	143
Topics published on both TechNet and MSDN (Resources and Services)	10
Report Catalog topics	1
License and Configuration Key Reference	15
White papers	1

As always, if you are curious about our general content strategy, where you can find our content, and how to give us feedback, see the post on Inside Dynamics AX: Official Dynamics AX 2012 Content.

System Administrator topics

The following topics in the system administrator help on TechNet have been published or updated.

Deployment	Overview of updates and hotfixes
	Process for installing updates
System setup	Import duplicate company data to use for testing
Troubleshooting	Troubleshooting database performance
Forms	Commodity pricing template line grouping (form)
	Prepare pricing templates

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Application User topics

The following topics in the application user help on TechNet have been published or updated.

Compliance and internal controls	Add images and colors to process flow maps
	Create and save process flow queries
	View a process flow map
Cost accounting	Create hierarchy structures
	Periodic activities in cost accounting
Human resources	About profile calendars for time and attendance registrations
	About profile types for time and attendance registrations
	About registration groups for time and attendance
	Add clock-out registrations for workers
	Clean up old time and attendance registrations
	Create time and attendance registrations
	Modify registrations before or after approval
	Process time and attendance registrations
	Register time and attendance
	Set up profile groups for time and attendance registrations
	Transfer time and attendance registrations
	Work planner
	Work with time and attendance
Inventory and warehouse management	About packing materials and packing material fees
	About product variants
	About shipment reservations
	Define packing material fees
	Print packing material weights on invoices
	View backorders by item
Procurement and sourcing	About backorders
	View purchase or sales release order lines
Product information management	About system-defined and user-defined table constraints
	Add a BOM line to a component
	Add a route operation to a component
	Add a table constraint to a component
	Add an attribute to a component
	Assign product dimensions to a product master
	Create a product configuration template
	Create a subcomponent for a component
	Create a table constraint
	Create an attribute group
	Create an expression constraint for a component
	Create attribute types
	Create components
	Create products by using a template
	Delete an attribute group
	Duplicate a product configuration model
	Enter translations in a product configuration model
	Import or export a product configuration model
	Modify product numbers
	Test a product configuration model
Production control	About production parameters in Manufacturing execution
	About reporting BOMs as finished
Sales and marketing	About direct deliveries
	About product groups
	About sales delivery reasons
	Add and delete contacts for synchronization in Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Outlook
	Create direct deliveries
	Direct deliveries
	Organizing products for presentation on the Enterprise Portal
	Print the status of a sales agreement
	View customer invoice lines for a sales agreement
	View history of confirmed sales agreements
Service management	Modify a Service BOM
	Prepare for service
Travel and expense	About expense reports and multiple approvers
	About posting an expense report to the general ledger
	About Travel and expense workflow
	About travel requisitions
	Approve or reject an expense report in the Microsoft Dynamics AX client
	Set up workflows for travel and expense
Forms	Activity details (form)
	Adjustment of on-hand inventory (form)
	Allocate charges (form)
	Auto charges (form)
	Calendar cleanup (class form)
	Cash advance posting (form)
	Change product numbers (form)
	Charges groups (form)
	Commodity codes (form)
	Complete job and enter details (form)
	Copy profile (class form)
	Copy service order lines (form)
	Create scheduled kanbans (form)
	Delegates (form)
	Delete return order (form)
	Delimitation (form)
	Dimensions display (form)
	Disposition codes (form)
	Expenditure reviewers – Expense reports (form)
	Expense purpose for transactions (form)
	Handle messages (form)
	Import product configuration model (form)
	Item model groups (form)
	Kanban quantity calculation (form)
	Kanban quantity calculation policies (form)
	Kanban schedule board (form)
	Manual premiums (form)
	Modes of delivery (form)
	New product (form)
	New released product (form)
	Number of planning periods (form)
	Pay adjustment pay types (form)
	Pay items (form)
	Pay types (form)
	Pegging tree overview (form)
	Per diem locations (form)
	Piecework workers (form)
	Planned production jobs (form)
	Premium lines (form)
	Release from purchase or sales agreement (form)
	Released product details (form)
	Released products (list page)
	Resolution (form)
	Resource groups (form)
	Restore lines (class form)
	Revert kanban job status (form)
	Sales agreement confirmations (form)
	Statistics groups (form)
	Terms of delivery (form)
	Worker balances (form)

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Developer topics

The following topics have been published or updated on MSDN.

Application Object Server (AOS)	Best Practices: Application Object Server (AOS)
	Number Sequence Framework
Best Practices	Best Practice Overview
	List of Error and Warning Messages
	Naming Conventions
	Top Best Practices to Consider
	X++ Coding Standards
	Best Practices Checks
	Classes Best Practices
	Data Dictionary Best Practices
	Jobs Best Practices
	Macros Best Practices
	Menu Items Best Practices
	Queries Best Practices
	Reports Best Practices
	Web Applications Best Practices
	Workflow Best Practices
	Best Practices for Classes
	Best Practices for Methods
	Best Practice for Destructors (finalize)
	Best Practices for Class Declarations
	Best Practices for Constructors
	Best Practices for Accessor Methods
	Best Practices for init Methods
	Best Practices for new and static new… Methods
	Best Practices for Static Construct Methods
	Best Practices for Local Functions
	Best Practices for Method Modifiers
	Best Practices for Parameters
	Naming Conventions: Methods
	Best Practices for Configuration and Security Keys
	Best Practices for Extended Data Types
	Best Practices for Perspectives
	Best Practices for Table Collections
	Best Practices for Views
	Best Practices: Tables
	Best Practices for Enum Properties
	Best Practices for Extended Data Type Properties
	Best Practices for Indexes
	Best Practices for Table Methods
	Best Practices for Table Properties
	Best Practices for Table Relations
	Best Practices: Table Fields
	Best Practices for Index Properties
	Clustered Indexes
	Unique Indexes
	Best Practices for Field Groups
	Best Practices for Table Field Properties
	Extended Field IDs
	Best Practices for Form Control Properties
	Best Practices for Form Design Properties
	Best Practices for Lookup Forms
	Best Practices: List Pages
	Best Practices for Report Design
	Best Practices for Report Properties
	Best Practices for Use of Reports
	APIs in the Standard Application
	Best Practices: Performance Optimizations
	Data Model for New Microsoft Dynamics AX Modules
	Design Principles
	Modify Objects in the Standard Application
	Modifying User Interface Text
	Best Practices: Relative Upgrade Costs
	Best Practice Performance Optimizations: AOS Tuning
	Best Practice Performance Optimizations: Database Design and Operations
	Best Practice Performance Optimizations: General Programming
	Best Practice Performance Optimizations: Swapping Arrays to Disk
	Always Use Field Groups in Tables
	Keep Business and User Interface Logic Separate
	Use Auto Property Settings
	Using Global Variables
	Where to Place the Code
	RunBase Framework
	Best Practices for Labels
	Naming Convention: Automatically Generated Names
	Naming Conventions: Abbreviations
	Naming Conventions: License Codes
	Naming Conventions: Name Structure
	Naming Conventions: Prefixes
	Naming Conventions: Underscores
	Naming Conventions: Use of Uppercase and Lowercase
	Naming Conventions: Variables
	HelpText Guidelines
	Best Practices: Avoiding Potential Security Issues
	Best Practices: XML Documentation
	Clear Code Examples
	Dead Code Examples
	Intrinsic Functions
	X++ Layout
	X++ Standards: Arrays
	X++ Standards: Comments
	X++ Standards: Constants
	X++ Standards: Dates
	X++ Standards: if … else and switch Statements
	X++ Standards: select Statements
	X++ Standards: throw Statements
	X++ Standards: try/catch Statements
	X++ Standards: ttsBegin and ttsCommit
Client	Action Pane Strip Overview
	Applying Country Specific Functionality
Database	How to: Add Multiple Data Sources to a Query
	Valid Time State Tables and Date Effective Data
Debugging	Debugger Shortcut Keys
	Microsoft Dynamics AX Debugger
Enterprise Portal	Enterprise Portal for Microsoft Dynamics AX
	Coding User Controls
	Troubleshooting: Enterprise Portal Development
	Walkthrough: Adding a Field to a User Control
	Walkthrough: Quickly Creating and Deploying a User Control
	Common Context Scenarios
	Using Context from Code in Enterprise Portal
	How to: Add Image Files to Enterprise Portal Pages
	How to: Add Page-level Navigation
	Connection to AOT
	How to: Add an EP Web Application Project to the AOT
	How to: Create an EP Web Application Project
	How to: Use a Predefined Proxy for a Web Application Project
	How to: Debug X++ Code on EP Pages
	Designing Reports for Enterprise Portal
	Security Resources for Enterprise Portal
	AxGridView
	How to: Connect User Controls with other User Controls
	Business Overview Web Part
Getting Started	Searching for Documentation with WebSearchAx
	What’s New: Best Practices for Developers in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
	What’s New: Enterprise Portal for Developers in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
	Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 SDK
Integration	How to: Create Data Using .NET Business Connector
	How to: Delete Data Using .NET Business Connector
	How to: Read Data Using .NET Business Connector
	How to: Update Data Using .NET Business Connector
	Walkthrough: Integrate an Application with Microsoft Dynamics AX Using .NET Business Connector
MorphX Development Tools	MorphX Reporting Tools
Properties of AOT Elements	Base Enum Properties
	Menu Item Properties
Reporting	Adding Links to a Report
	Deprecated Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Reports in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
	How to: Create a Menu Item for a Report
Security	How to: Find Objects and Roles Related to Security Constructs
Visual Studio Integration	Deploying Managed Code
X++ Language Programming Guide	Constructors
	The this Object

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Topics on both TechNet and MSDN

The following topics have been published or updated on both TechNet and MSDN.

Resources

Resources

Troubleshoot the Data Management Framework

Services 

Services and Application   Integration Framework (AIF)	How to: Configure integration ports for selected services
	Troubleshoot services and AIF
	Walkthrough: Configuring an inbound integration port for catalog import
Getting started with   services and AIF	Messages and transforms in AIF
Services and AIF   development	Message Header
	Walkthrough: Calling the Metadata Service
	Walkthrough: Calling the Query Service with a Static Query
	How to: Import an XSLT Transform
	Exchanging documents between BizTalk Server and AIF

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Report Catalog

The following report topics are now available.

Report Catalog

Customer turnover report (smmCustRevenue)

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License and Configuration Key Reference

The following topics have been published or updated on both TechNet and MSDN.

Project I license code (Project1)	Project I configuration key (ProjBasic)
Project I license code (Project1) / Project I configuration key   (ProjBasic)	Cost and internal project configuration key (ProjBasicInternalProject)
	Expense configuration key (ProjBasicCost)
	Fee configuration key (ProjBasicRevenue)
	Forecast configuration key (ProjBasicForecast)
	Hours configuration key (ProjBasicHour)
	Microsoft Project Server integration configuration key (ProjServerIntegration)
	On-account configuration key (ProjBasicOnAcc)
	Project grant management configuration key (ProjGrant)
Project II license code (Project2)	Project II configuration key (ProjAdvanced)
Project II license code (Project2) / Project II configuration   key (ProjAdvanced)	Investment configuration key (ProjAdvEstimateInvestment)
	Advanced funding configuration key (ProjAdvFunding)
	Budgeting and cost control configuration key (ProjAdvCostControl)
	Cash flow configuration key (ProjAdvCashFlow)
	Estimate projects configuration key (ProjAdvEstimate)

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White Papers

The following white papers were published in November.

Implementing the Agreement Framework

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