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5 Must Have Functionalities For B2B Retailers In Their Ecommerce

As more and more retailers are embracing ecommerce for their B2B operations, it is imperative to have the correct set of features that would increase its acceptance to its buyers. The overall business goal should be a happy and delighted customer. While, features like fast loading time, attractive and simple UI, great content management system, scalability, security are standard requirements, the below five when added to these will make it a complete solution.

Range Purchase:

| Siddhartha Mondal

Adding Web Service Reference In AX 2012, No Proxy DLL

Thought of sharing a small yet tricky way to add a web service reference directly from AX 2012 without using proxy DLL, for consuming the same.

Normally, when we right click on AOT "References", we can add only the DLL references from there. (Figure 1)

But if we create a project, and add a "Reference" group, and then right click on it, we will get both the options; of adding the DLL reference as well as adding the web service reference. (Figure 2)

| Urminavo Das

Creating Simple Tile Element In Dynamics AX

Tile is a new element in form design in latest version of Dynamics AX. As with tiles at other places in Microsoft products, it is used to provide key information on dashboard with or without graphical image. Tile also have drill down functionality to go to an item which have detailed information about the topic.

In this walkthrough, I’ll create a simple counting tile which displays the number of record in a table.

As a pre-requisite, I have a simple table ‘SONTable2’ with two string fields – ID and Description.

| Deepak Gupta

Basic Analytics Artifacts

AX 7 has changed the way analytics components are designed, deployed and used in this software. The perspectives and aggregate data entity are now first class member of AOT. Aggregate data entities can now be used as a data source in the form directly which was not possible in case of cubes earlier. This post describes the concepts of dimensions, measures and data entities. Their use in forms will be described in later posts.

Perspectives

| Deepak Gupta

Tips And Tricks To Clear Rainier Development

Cleared this examination few days back, scoring over 90%. Sharing few tips and areas we can emphasize on for clearing this examination, which might be helpful -

- For experienced persons (having hands-on experience on Rainier), it will not be that much tough to clear the exam.

- For experienced persons (but not having hands-on experience on Rainier), it will not be that much tough to clear the exam. But please go through the Visual Studio environment and the related study materials, as this environment is completely new, along with the changes being incorporated.

| Urminavo Das