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From the Microsoft Dynamics AX Blogs: Reduce Time for Master Scheduling Jobs; Tracking Subsidiary Statements; Replacement of “Temporary Property”; Display Documents in a New Table Through EP

by Jared Berezin
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Master Scheduling Nightly Batch Job Taking Too Long? Here's a Tip: The folks at Dilip's blog for Dynamics AX had an issue where the Master Scheduling nightly batch job was taking 4 hours to complete. Here's how they reduced the time to 45 minutes: "Set up the Helpers count to a number more than 0, in our case 8 was a decent figure as it reduced the job completion time from 4 hours to 45 mins. By setting the helper count, it spawns into multiple threads/multiple tasks thereby making the job quicker."

How to Perform Currency Conversion and Consolidation to Keep Track of Foreign Subsidiaries: Sandeep Chaudhury walks through the necessary steps to perform currency conversion and consolidation for a subsidiary company operating on a foreign currency:

"Let us assume that the subsidiary company is SUB which operates in GBP (Britain Pounds) currency and the parent company PAR reports in USD (US Dollar) currency... The first task we have for this requirement is to perform the currency conversion for SUB company so that we can perform the consolidation."

"Temporary Property" Replaced with "TempType" in Dynamics AX 2012: Here's What it Means: In the Dynamics AX Consultant's Blog, Sreenath Reddy G explains:

"Temporary property in Dynamics AX 6.0 has been replaced with tempType property and we can select from 3 categories. Naming convention of table still remains the same: Tmp prefix followed by your tableName.

1.      Regular: permanent Tables

2.      InMemory: ...

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Jared Berezin serves as a contributing writer to MSDynamicsWorld.com. With combined interests in technology and science, Jared previously served as a writer for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, drafting scientific narrative reports on the latest advancements in cancer research. Jared has also served as associate marketing specialist for International Data Corporation (IDC), a market research firm. In this position, he planned and executed strategic marketing initiatives for IDC's software and services research programs, and wrote outbound communications to the press, existing clients, and prospects. Jared also has experience working for several local newspapers in eastern Massachusetts. Jared graduated with honors from Colby College with a BA in English and creative writing.
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