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I used to have customers that would like to limit the data available in whatever department or group they belong to. So for this entry, I will discuss the security using organization hierarchy. Actually there are white papers available that discusses the following: Developing Extensible Data Security Policies Securing Data by Dimension Value by Using XDS For this post though, I will be deviating a little bit from what has been discussed in the white paper. So you must already know that you can setup what Legal Entities and Operating Units are available for a specific user and role. If not, you can actually do that from System administrator à Common à User à User’s role à Assign organization button. Know that the organization hierarchy to be used here should have a hierarchy purpose Security . It’s great that we have an available setup for this, unfortunately this is only limited to Legal Entities, Global Address Book, Budgets, HCM Records,...

In Dynamics AX 2012, we have this concept of pushing and pulling the data for Retail between Head Office and Store. The data is written in XML form, compressed into an rpf file then saved to a working folder.  These rpf files or data packages can be opened using DDPackView.exe which is available if you install Async Server (Head Office) or Async Client (Store). You may find it in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\CDX\Async Server\Package If you execute it from here, you will need to specify the actual rpf file you want to check and click Convert . You might encounter an error: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Dynamics.Retail.StoreConnect.RequestHandlerManager, Version=6.3.0.0, Cuture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=xxxx or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Usually, I just copy the following in the same folder of DDPackView: DDPackView.exe.config Microsoft.Dynamics.Retail.EventTraceProvider.dll Microsoft...