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Simon Buxton
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Simon Buxton

Simon Buxton has worked with Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management since its earliest incarnations, starting with the product in early 1999 when Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management was known as Damgaard Axapta 1.5. Simon has been the technical lead on many highly challenging technical projects in countries all around the world. These projects included complex integrations with on-premises and external systems, ISV solutions, and many technically challenging customer solutions. Now working with Binary, he was part of a team that implemented the first Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementation as part of the Community Technical Preview (CTP) program, which led to the close working relationship with Microsoft that made this book possible
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Creating the menu structure

The menu structure is carried over from the user interface concepts in AX 2012. In Supply Change Management (SCM), the menus have the same structure, but are opened from the burger menu button, just below Finance and Operations on the top left of the page, as shown in the following screenshot:

Each menu appears under the Modules option, as shown in the following screenshot:

All the menu items for forms, reports, and processes must be placed in the menu structure, even if we create a workspace later.

The menu structure may seem to have been relaxed slightly from the rigid structure recommended in Dynamics AX 2012. In Dynamics AX 2012, we always have the following main headings in a menu: Common, Inquiries, Reports, Periodic, and Setup. If we look at the AccountsPayable menu in the Application Explorer, we will see that the old structure has been flattened...

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Simon Buxton

Simon Buxton has worked with Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management since its earliest incarnations, starting with the product in early 1999 when Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management was known as Damgaard Axapta 1.5. Simon has been the technical lead on many highly challenging technical projects in countries all around the world. These projects included complex integrations with on-premises and external systems, ISV solutions, and many technically challenging customer solutions. Now working with Binary, he was part of a team that implemented the first Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementation as part of the Community Technical Preview (CTP) program, which led to the close working relationship with Microsoft that made this book possible
Read more about Simon Buxton