Today we will continue to discuss Microsoft Dynamics AX. We briefly reviewed the user interface features to get to know Dynamics AX. Then we looked at the variety of tools for viewing and analyzing business data. Data is usually presented in Reports. Reports can be generated in a variety of ways. The standard-reports are pre-constructed views of business data and they number in hundreds. Reports are available from their data sources such as general ledger. Auto reports enables us to view the data from a form and these data can be saved to the Application Object Tree AOT. Ad hoc reports provide greater flexibility for generating reports although they still use a report template. This is helpful when parameters have to be passed in to generate the reports. OLAP reports span more duration of data for analysis where trends in business data becomes more important.
Tasks might take longer to execute. Sometimes its best to let it run elsewhere and at some other time where they can be prioritized, queued and executed. For this purpose we can submit batch jobs which are maintained in a batch job list.
Documents may be attached to data. This is helpful in cases where we need to add notes and attachments to the data. Multiple notes may be attached to the same data.
The enterprise portal enables web based access to the dynamics instance on a server installed in the enterprise network. Access is role based such as employees, Sales representatives, consultants, vendors, customers etc.
#codingexercise from yesterday: https://ideone.com/cirMb7
and another:
Fill out a given matrix of size N x M with B mines so that a player playing minesweeper can find them using clues that are given as numbers in each cell that indicate the number of mines in the adjacent eight cells: 
https://ideone.com/kPGtZ5