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If you work in a system for some time you learn tricks that make it easier to use that system. Usually, you don’t even realize that you use them until you watch a new user and ask „But why don’t you …“.
So I thought I’d start a collection of some of those tiny tricks I use in AX very often. I will add to the list as I go along in my projects and notice something that might help new users.
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If you navigate within a form and use the tab key, you will realize that the current value in the control is preselected. You can then directly type in the value you want to enter because the old value is automatically overwritten.
In some cases, I navigate with the mouse to „my“ control, tab out of it to the next control and tab back (hold shift), just so that I don’t have to select the text with my mouse. Weiterlesen
You can use any editable number control in AX as a calculator.
Say you’re just receiving stock, and it’s 3 packages with 95 items each, but 17 are already missing …
Try it out. You might find it useful from time to time.
In date controls, just enter the day and it will automatically expand to that day in the current month:
If you want today’s date, but don’t remember that it’s the thirteenth, just type d, and it’ll expand.
I often see people clicking twice on a column’s header because they want the list to be sorted in descending ordet. Clicking twice is fine if sorting doesn’t take longer than you like. If it does: Open the context menu on the column (not the Header, but in a value field).
Your users complain that performance is really bad when the first report is created in the morning?
I’m currently working on Multi Site Activation in a WMS II environment on AX2009, with the latest KR. Looks like there are some bugs – or at least, not all „real-life“ scenarios are covered in a useful way. Let me make quick notes on them, maybe it’ll help you, too: Weiterlesen
Your alert rules stopped working all of a sudden? Chances are you’ve modified your database log setup and thereby killed the alerts.
What? Why? But how?
(Add the end of this post, you’ll find an X++ job that will revive your alerts)
(Edit, Dec. 16, 2015: Applies to R2, R3 fix is identical to „my“ solution!)