From the Microsoft Dynamics AX Blogs: Arrival overview; Factory methods; Smarter bundle sizes; Time and attendance

From this week's Microsoft Dynamics AX blogs:

• Arrival Overview for Return Order in AX 2012 R3
• Development Tutorial: SysExtension Framework in Factory Methods Where the Constructor Requires One or More Arguments
• Shorter Customer Aging Snapshot Batch Run Times Using Smarter Bundle Sizes (AX 2012)
• Time and Attendance Terminal Auto Start

Arrival Overview for Return Order in AX 2012 R3

On his blog, Abhijeet Hele noted that the Arrival overview form improves the overview of the items that are expected to arrive as incoming goods and the arrival can be initialized based on the overview.

Hele explained how to initiate the return of the goods through the arrival overview process.

Once the RMA (materials authorization) is created, you send the return report that includes the details of the items a company agreed to take back to that company.

At that point the Arrival overview, which provides an overview of items that will come as return from the customer, comes into play.

From there, you can initiate the item arrival process, which is described here.

Development Tutorial: SysExtension Framework in Factory Methods Where the Constructor Requires One or More Arguments

On the Dynamics AX Microsoft Dynamics AX Tools and Tutorials blog, Ivan Kashperuk stated that at the recent Dynamics 365 for Operations Technical Conference, Microsoft announced its future plans around overlayering.

The impact of this change means that you should stop using certain patterns when you write new X++ code, according to Kashperuk. One of the patterns he advises you to avoid is the implementation of factory methods through a ...