From the Microsoft Dynamics AX Blogs: Project funding allocation; New AX financial period closing; Recurring batch job import; X++ unit testing

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

• How Project Funding Allocation Works with Amounts that Exceed Funding Limits;
• Financial Period Closing in the New Dynamics AX(AX 7) - Get Real Time Status, Be More Productive, Close Faster;
• Recurring batch job import in AX 2012 R3;
• Unit Testing X++ code in Visual Studio (AX 2012

How Project Funding Allocation Works with Amounts that Exceed Funding Limits

On the Microsoft Dynamics AX Support blog, Don Clemens noted that in AX 2012 R3 CU10, Project Management and Accounting allows you to create funding limits and funding rules under the project contract.

With these limits and rules, the system will try to allocate to these rules. However, Clemens said if a limit is reached, the rest of the allocations in that rule will be subjected to aspect ratio allocation.

In his post, Clemens explained how this works and why the system may run into allocation issues when posting transactions.

The Scenario: This example will be using the USMF data set under Legal Entity USSI. This example shows where it looks like it should be able to handle the amount asked to allocate, but fails.

You can see the example, find out why it fails and learn what to do about it here.

Financial Period Closing in the New Dynamics AX(AX 7)-Get Real Time Status, Be More Productive, Close Faster

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