From the Microsoft Dynamics AX blogs: AX 2012 HCM updates; Direct database queries; Performance issues; R3 Project revenue recognition

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

• Zero Earning Pay Statements;
• ENUM values missing in SRSANALYSISENUMS Table;
• Managing General Performance Issues in Microsoft Dynamics AX;
• Straight Line Project Revenue Recognition in AX 2012 R3 CU8

AX 2012 R2 HCM Zero Earning Pay Statements

On the Microsoft Dynamics AX HCM News, Learnings, & Highlights blog, Brandon Potter, a senior program manager at Microsoft, says recently the Dynamics AX HCM team released a couple new enhancements for payroll in Dynamics AX 2012 R2 that adds support for retroactive earning generation and zero earning pay statements.

These enhancements were delivered as part of KB2978309 and will be made available for the AX 2012 R3 release as part of CU8, which is coming later this fall. Potter's post covers the zero earning pay statement functionality.

"So you read the heading and are now wondering what in the world we mean by zero earning pay statements. Well, prior to this enhancement they didn't exist in Dynamics AX Payroll. With this enhancement a couple of capabilities were introduced. These changes result in the ability to perform numerous critical payroll scenarios."

"We now offer the ability to be able to create pay statements wither with no earning lines at all or with lines that have hours/quantity, but no dollar value/rate. Thus in both cases they create zero earning pay statements."

Potter goes into detail on the two key changes that were made and lists potential scenarios that each can enable for your payroll ...