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After giving an example of how to use the automatic role assignment by using one of the standard queries in my previous post, I will inform you how to add a new query to use within the Automatic role assignment rules. It is not always possible to add linked tables to the base query to achieve the expected result, due to several points. E.g. two fields in a table have a relation to the same table.

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Last time I wrote about the standard batch jobs in AX and promised to come back on the automatic role assignment in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. I will explain two examples. One example will be based on using a query out of the box. The second will be described in my next post and will give an example how to create a new query for this feature.

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Extensible Data Security examples

This post will guide you how to restrict access to relevant records only in the form Legal Entities by using the Extensible Data Security (XDS). It will explain the steps to create the security and how to deal with some unwanted side effects.

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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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