At various points in time during an Ax implementation and following go live, it is necessary to move data between systems. Sometimes restoring the entire database is both unnecessary and inconvenient.Depending on who the tasks falls to (or who has time to complete it) there are a few different ways this can be achieved. A … Continue reading DIXF – Copy data between Ax systems
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Enable DB Compression in Ax 2012 with SQL 2012
Database compression can be beneficial under certain circumstances. Ax 2012 supports enabling database compression from within the application. See this blog post for more details.This is quite handy. Unfortunately it only works with SQL 2008, not SQL 2012.The class SysSQLSetupHelper checks the SQL version and the controls on the form SysSQLSetup are enabled or disabled based … Continue reading Enable DB Compression in Ax 2012 with SQL 2012
DIXF – Copy data between companies
Of the many new features introduced in Ax 2012 R2 CU7, one is the ability to use the Data Import Export Framework (DIXF) to copy data between companies.From the DIXF menu, select Copy entity data between companies.Enter a name & description for the processing group.Select the entities to include in the processing group.Select the source … Continue reading DIXF – Copy data between companies
Setup Canadian Demo Company
In Ax 2012, country based functionality is tied to an entities primary address. Recently when setting up a demo Canadian company, we needed to enter a registration number and a software identification code.The software identification code was easy, as explained by the help - two letters followed by 6 numbers.The registration number took a little … Continue reading Setup Canadian Demo Company
Number sequence 0 does not exist
If you receive the error 'Number sequence 0 does not exist', check the voucher number sequence associated with the journal type you are trying to post.
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