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Tool to copy security permissions in AX

Copying security roles, groups, user options and associating worker against user The role based security works very well in AX 2012 and security development tool has also made the life of AX system administrator very charming. It was a nightmare to define security for each user in earlier versions of MS Dynamics AX.  However, there is one area which security development tool does not cover and is often required in many occassions. That is  "To Copy user roles from one user to another" . Let's say we have created/imported a new user in AX and System Administrator requires to assign same role(s), existing users have, to this new added user. This requirement might come due to identical nature of work or responsibilities shared among different users.  This tool will help you to copy users roles, users options, user groups, user's main accounts and user association with worker by creating new worker if not exists. User association with worker is required to perform ...

Easy Extended AX Table-Browser

During implementations and regular developments in AX, I observed that many consultants/developers open the tables from AOT in the Table-Browser and by hand attempt to add/delete the records by hitting Ctrl+N/Alt+F9 keys and often copies the records from the table-browser and paste them to excel for checking/saving/printing/... the table data. The distress of manually copying/pasting of records and recalling the control-keys can be avoided by simply extending the Table-Browser by adding the Standard data Toolbar to the form Step-1: Go to the AOT and select \Forms\SysTableBrowser\Designs\Design and then change the design property WindowType value from “Popup” to “Standard” Fig1: Changing WindowType property value to “Standard” Step-2: Save and compile the SysTableBrowser Form after changing the WindowType property value Fig2: The original Table-Browser (WindowType property is “Popup”) Fig3: Easy Extened Table-Browser with Standard-Toolbar (WindowType property is “...