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Hi everyone, I have been playing around with some Ax 2012 stuff and I was testing the Office Add-in and I think it is preatty cool. In order to use the Office Add-in it has to be installed with the Ax client and some settings needs to be made in the system as well. Lets dive into how it can be done, this is how I tested this function and it can most certainly be done in different ways. First I created a small query called MyCustTableQuery Next step is to provide information about the query and expose it so we can use the query in our office application, my application of choice was Excel. In Dynamics Ax 2012 go to Organization Administration> Setup> Document Management > Document datasources Here it is possible to select a query or service, in my example I used the query. So here i added a new record of data source type Query and then I selected my newly created MyCustTableQuery . Now the query is ready to use in what ever office application we ha...

I have been laying low the past weeks due to some healt problems that have hindered me from working and writing some blogs. Now I am slowly getting back after an operation on the 31st of August. Before I went on a sick leave in mid July I was working on an upgrade project from Dynamics Ax 4.0 to Dynamics Ax 2012. In this first post after the operation I just wanted to point out the importance of the data upgrade process and how important it is for all parties to work to gather to get it done. To success in the process the developer, consultant and the end customer must work as one. As a single unit the developer for example only has few pieces of the puzzle. He or she knows or at least should know how to write data upgrade scripts. But in order to succeed with that the developer needs to know how to transform the data and it is there where the consultant with the end customer come in to the picture. So togather the consultant and end customer decide how and what data needs to b...