Monday, January 06, 2014

How to Take Application and DB backup in AX 2009

Applied on: 
Microsoft Dynamics® Ax 2009.
audience: 
This article is for Ax Technical persons & Administrators.



About this article: 
when  you created a new instance of AX2009 for testing purpose, you want to make it the same as the live server, so which files you have to copy from live server  and paste it in new Dev instance server.

This article Helps to know :

-->How to take Application Backup of ax 2009.
-->How to take Date Base  Backup.

Steps to Take Backup & Replace :

1)      Stop Dynamics AX Windows Service in newly created Test AX Server’s machine

2)      Copy entire Source Live AX Server’s Application-Folder located at 
       (Ex: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\50\Application)
         To know where-about Source Live AX Server App-Folder location 
         Goto: Start Menu > Administrative Tools > Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Server Configuration
       See text in Application-File-Location in Tab:[Application Object Server ]

3)      Paste/Replace folders/files into the targeted new AX Test Server’s Application-Folder
       To know where-about Test AX Server App-Folder location
          Goto: Start Menu > Administrative Tools > Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Server Configuration
        See text in Application-File-Location in Tab:[Application Object Server ]

4)      Take Database Backup in Source Live AX Server’s SQL-Server

5)      Restore Database in targeted Test AX Server’s SQL-Server

6)      Start Dynamics AX Windows Service in newly created Test AX Server’s machine

Friday, January 03, 2014

How to open record directly from Info dialog in Microsoft Dynamics Ax 2009 / AX 2012

Applied on: 
Microsoft Dynamics® Ax 2009  & AX 2012 .

Target audience: 
This article is for Ax Technical persons.



About this article: 
Most of the time when we create / update / manipulate record, in general the record we display in an info log to inform end user. It’s easy for end user to open and see the record from info log dialog using a show button or by double click on the message.



This article Helps to know :

How to display Show button on info log dialog in Microsoft Dynamics® Ax 2009 /AX 2012.
Double click on info log message and open the record in Microsoft Dynamics® Ax 2009/
AX 2012.Pass record to the info method, display Show button on info log dialog and open the form with current record in Microsoft Dynamics® Ax 2009/AX 2012.Directly open record from info dialog / form in Microsoft Dynamics® Ax 2009/AX 2012. 


Below is job which shows a vendor Group in info log dialog and if you double click on the vendor Group  it will open the vendor Group detail form.