Retail 2012 virtual launch event

After AX convergence, there was a retail event. 

To get inspired & motivated watch these exciting videos and demos:

• Watch the on-demand global Virtual Launch Event to see how leading retailers are using this solution to support rapid growth, and learn about the other powerful capabilities that are new to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, or
• Download the Gartner ERP strategy whitepaper. (this link did not work, try at your own risk).

You can follow @MSFTDynamicsERP on Twitter to learn about new exciting marketing materials.

OPOS Problems?

A step that is often overlooked after an OPOS driver install is the installation of common control objects from Monroe Consulting Services. They can be found here.
I faced the same troubleshooting problem when setting up HP rp5700 with Dynamics AX for Retail 2009.

Stack trace: The company XX does not exist. (S)\Classes\DirParty\updateAddressFromDirParty - line 149

This is a case worthy of Agatha Christie.
Starting conditions:
Error infolog appeared when saving an address for a vendor by a user, who has access to only a subset of virtual company's company set.

In other words: We have a virtual company that shares DirParty and Vendor tables. Let's say the companies in the virtual company are: 01,02,03,04,05. The user has permissions to access only 01 and 02.

The user creates a Vendor record. When adding the address, the error appears.

On a closer look, the DirParty class, method UpdateAddressFromDirParty has an interesting function: for a public address create address records in all the real companies which are the part of the virtual company. In our case 01,02,03,04,05.
So the conflict arises: The user only has permissions for 01 and 02, while the program wants to update more.
The solution is to introduce some sort of validation of whether the user has permission to the company, which AX is trying to update:

                       if(Sysdataarea::checkAccessible(dataAreaId)==false)
                         {
                         infolog.closeInfolog(100);
                         continue
                          }
That is a crude way to verify whether the user has access to the company Dynamics AX wants to update an address in. 
Place this code right after the following line:
dataAreaId = conpeek(addressDataAreaList,i);

Of course, test it out before applying to a production environment.