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Conversion error in custom entity (AX 2012)

When Microsoft designed the Data Import Export Framework in AX2012 it provided some entities out of the box. In many scenarios, you will be missing an entity. You can create your own entities in the development environment from scratch or you can use the wizard which will create the basic objects required for your new entity. Sometimes you might run into errors and you should start troubleshooting. This post will provide a walkthrough of how to create an entity. When finished this entity has an error due to conversion of an enumeration field. A solution for this problem is also provided at the end of this blog.

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Troubleshooting Data Import Export Framework

As promised in my previous blog post, I would write two blog posts with a summary of my presentation at the AXUG European Congress. In this post, I will provide some tips related to troubleshooting Data Import Export Framework issues.

Known issues

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Tips about Data Import Export Framework performance

Last week I was a speaker on the first AXUG European Congress. This event took place on May 9 and 1o in Stuttgart. My session was about the Data Import Export Framework in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. The subject was related to performance and troubleshooting. I decided to write a summary of the presentation in two blog posts. In this post I will recap the performance thoughts. Read more

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My session on the AXUG European Congress 2016

I have not written a blog for some time. Not that I did not have anything to share, but I was burdened with a neck hernia. Now it seems like I’m recovering, I can start blogging again! For this time I will keep the content very light weighted. Read more

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Tips on AX 2012 Security Development Tool – Part 8

Last year I posted some tips on the Microsoft Dynamics AX Security Development Tool. Recently my colleague Boye Walters also wrote an episode and named it Tips on AX 2012 Security Development Tool – Part 7. Well… he fanned the fire on his topic and here is another edition: Tips on AX 2012 Security Development Tool – Part 8; focusing on the view type Duties and Privileges.

While we always focus on roles, we sometimes forget about completeness of privileges or duties. Namely in ISV development this is very important. A privilege should be able to be reused in other duties. In addition duties needs to work in various roles. For example if a new Duty called “Maintain rentals” is created you would like to have this person be able to maintain rental items, but he should also be able to view related transactions.

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