When you read the title of this blog post you might think this post is about changes during the lifecycle of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. Or maybe it is related to the security framework in older versions (AX 2009), the current version (AX 2012) or the new Microsoft Dynamics AX (aka ‘AX 7’). Well, it’s not. This post will tell you about a standard feature to restrict access on past, current and future records for tables which supports date effective data. It is called “Date effective policies”. What is date effective data? In Microsoft Dynamics 2012 a new framework was added to support a more simplified way of controlling data which has several values in points of time. An example is the exchange rates for currencies. For each working day another rate might be applicable. Also you can think of employee data where a person had fulfilled multiple positions during his employment. You can read more (technical) information about valid time state tables on MSDN: Valid Time State Tables and Date Effective Data [AX 2012]. How can we control the date effective policies? To restrict access on records in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, there are two known methods: Record level security (RLS) – (will […]
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