When you are in the need of converting an amount from one currency to another you can go to a website and convert online with exchange rates provided by a central bank. When you are using Microsoft Dynamics AX you setup your own currency exchange rates. In AX2012 R2 you can also use exchange rate providers to have the rates downloaded periodically.

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When it comes to testing of appropriate security in Microsoft Dynamics AX, you want to ensure persons will get enough permissions for doing their daily jobs in AX. You don’t want to give too much functionality, namely because of risks. When the user has too less functionality, the normal daily job cannot be executed correctly.

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Some customers and community people have sometimes the question of how to create a specific role in AX2012 where people have just “read-only” rights. In the past, I used a specific trick to establish such a role in just 10 minutes. (This besides finetuning. see details below).

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