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From the Microsoft Dynamics AX blogs: Social tracking; Invoice import utility; Monitoring number sequences; Exchange rate access

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

A selection of the latest insight from the Microsoft Dynamics AX blogs:

  • Track Social Media Information Against Contacts;
  • Pending Vendor Invoice Data Import Utility;
  • Monitoring AX Number Sequences;
  • Exchange Rates "Unlimited"

Track Social Media Information Against Contacts

On his Dynamics AX Tip of the Day blog, Murray Fife notes that the contact management feature within Microsoft Dynamics AX lets you track an unlimited number of phone numbers, email addresses, and websites against a contact. However, they're only the direct contact types. But because we live in the social media age, there are many other sources of information to track against contacts.

Fife says just a small tweak to the configuration in Dynamics AX, will let you add additional contact media types and start tracking all this information. So now you will be able to get the full scoop on you customers and contacts.

You can find out how to do it here.

Pending Vendor Invoice Data Import Utility

Recently Fatima Zafar of consulting company Systems Limited had to develop a data import utility as a part of a particular project. One of the subparts of the data import utility is the Pending Vendor Invoices utility. The architecture of the data import utility is as follows:

  • Staging: Data is first import into staging table, where It can be viewed, validated or cleared by the user
  • Validate: Data can be validated in order to ensure the correctness of data
  • Import: Data in the staging tables ...

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.

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