Monday, July 18, 2016

R3 Retail Async Client + Server Error: Unable to communicate with server for upload. Please check username/password, server and database connections.

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Recently I came across a strange error when dealing with the new Async Server + Client feature within AX 2012 R3 to support a channel databa...
Friday, February 5, 2016

AX - SSRS - SrsReportDataProviderPreProcess - Warning the user of a long run time

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When running a preprocessing type of report it may cause the users AX client to freeze. So in order to let them know that it is actually run...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

AX SSRS - Regular Processing (SRSReportDataProviderBase) VS PreProcessing (SrsReportDataProviderPreProcess) (fixes timeout issues on reporting)

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Sometimes in AX we need to create reports that exceed the default run-time limits defined in AX (default is 10minutes) because of the amount...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Check to see if a file is locked by another process. Error: The process cannot access the file 'filelocation' because it is being used by another process.

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Sometimes when dealing with scenarios where you need to generate a file and then do something else with said file the code base can tell you...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

CostSheetCache table is too large. How to clear it out

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The CostSheetCache table which is used as a temp location for cost sheets to help generate prices is not cleared automatically in AX un...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

AX SSRS - Repeat Row/Column Headers on every page

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If you need to repeat a row header on every page within a report that is being generated from AX you will have noticed that the majority of ...

CostSheets - Finding the costing header that is associated with a cost group id

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If you take a look at costing sheets within AX 2012 (Company/Inventory and warehouse management/Setup/Costing/Costing Sheets) you will find ...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

AX SSRS Report times out after 10 minutes (Error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond)

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Sometimes when running a report that is going to return a large data set you may get the following error message after 10 minutes: "A...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Importing security roles & users via the TDTT may cause some roles to not appear under the users

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If you ran my previous blog entry on exporting and importing users + role assignments via the TDTT (Test Data Transfer Tool) then in some ca...

Exporting/Importing specific tables via the TDTT (Test Data Transfer Tool) / Transfering only user tables with role assignments via TDTT

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Recently after starting to use the Test Data Transfer Tool (TDTT) it was brought to my attention that users and role associations were not c...