From the Microsoft Dynamics AX blogs: Automated email notifications; Changing POS label text; AXUtilLib; Export to Excel; Daisy-chaining blank ops in Retail

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

• AX Content: Configure Email Functionality in Dynamics AX;
• Changing Label Text on the POS;
• AXUtilLib - AX Management Utilities Version Matter;
• Using Export To Excel in Dynamics AX to Create Reporting Data Sources
• AX for Retail 2012: Daisy-chaining Blank Operations;

AX Content: Configure Email Functionality in Dynamics AX

The folks over at the AX Support blog explain that you can configure Dynamics AX to automatically send email notifications to users when specific events occur. For example, Dynamics AX can send email notifications to users when documents are assigned to them for approval (as defined by a workflow), or when sales orders are canceled (as defined by an alert rule).

To configure email functionality in Microsoft Dynamics AX, you'll need to connect Dynamics AX to an SMTP mail server, enter an email address for each user, set up a batch to send the email messages, and create email templates for the specific features that you're using (such as workflows and alert rules).

You can see a graphic about this topic and get more information here.

Changing Label Text on the POS

On the K3 Retail Technical Blog, Ed Phillip says there may be times when you want to customize the text that appears on the POS forms to meet the needs of the client.

Did you know that each string of text that appears on a POS form has a unique label ID? Well, by finding out the POS label ID it is possible to centrally override the standard POS ...