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There are a few standard solutions for accessing different role functions:

• Other role functions are accessible via Departments menu. But having a dedicated Role Center makes it even easier.
• It is possible to have several shortcuts to NAV where the Role Center name is entered in parameters string. While it is a solution that works, it is done not via NAV and is often not so easy for users who are not advanced.
• It is possible to develop special Role Centers according to specific users' requirements. This is good solution when users mostly do the same actions from several Role Centers.

I would like to tell you about one more intelligent option. With a small modification, it is possible to prompt the NAV application to ask which Role Center (profile) the user wants to use. How does it work?

The long awaited Dynamics AX 2012 solution is bundled with exciting and challenging features to learn. In this article I will highlight only the most important ones for AX developers from partner companies.

A full text index consists of string type columns. It contains location information about each significant word in a string field of a table. A full text search uses this index to make faster search on long string type fields.

As many developers know, Pages and Codeunits can be exposed as Web Services. When using a Codeunit as a Web Service we ordinarily use simple data types as function parameters. It is also possible to pass XMLPorts. Let's view an example and test it.

When trying to match date formatting on the classic and RDLC versions of a report, you might run into an issue of mismatched date formatting. This can be corrected by forcing the same date format on Classic and RDLC reports. But what do you do if you want to maintain the user's setup?

In AX 2009, you might have a field that extends SysDim extended data type (EDT) that represents a single financial dimension value. Usually it goes together with dimension type, a field that extends SysDimension enum.