As you zoom in on the maps, you may want to see information about the areas that you are looking at. You can easily do this by turning on the map labels.
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Up until now we have just been looking at the data from one data table within Dynamics AX. If you want to merge multiple tables together, then you don’t have to resort to using SQL statements, or building complicated queries, you can use PowerQuery to merge the data for you.
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You don’t have to look at the map data just as columns, you can also use PowerMap to show the data as bubble plots, heat maps, and also as regions by changing the map type.
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Although the PowerView map functions are nice, PowerMap is a much better way to visualize information geographically.
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Another of the PowerBI tools is PowerQuery. This is an incredibly useful tool, because it allows you to query and massage data directly within Excel. This is especially useful if you only want to report off some of the data, or if you want to pre-filter the data.
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One of the easiest ways to map your Dynamics AX data is through PowerView directly from within Excel. PowerView will automatically recognize geographic columns as mappable data elements, and will translate them to the map view.
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Once you have a product to configure, it is time to create a Product Configuration Model. This is going to contain all of the rules and definitions that you will use to tell Dynamics AX how to build your new product BOM’s.
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Once you have all of your attributes configured, with their values, and constraints, you can now create the rules that will allow Dynamics AX to use them to create dynamic BOM’s on the fly.
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You can further refine your Product configuration model by adding constraints. These are rules that allow you to restrict what values are allowed to be entered in the attributes based on the values of other attributes.
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You may not want to show all of the attributes on the configuration screen initially. Some may be dependent on others being set, and others may have to be added sequentially so that you don’t have gaps in the configuration attributes. You can do this through the product configurators conditional rules that allow you to show and hide attributes based on conditions.
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Extending Dynamics AX 