Dynamics Ax 2012 Workflow - From business point of view

• A workflow represents a business process
• Defines how a document flows or moves through the system
• Shows who must process and approve documents.
• Helps modeling business process with code less.
• Workflows in dynamics AX are easy to enable.
• Flexible to design and maintain.

Workflow Type

• A category that defines the module (AP, AR, FA etc.) that the workflow type is available.
• To add workflow support for a document (PR,SO etc) in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.

In earlier version, workflow types were known as workflow templates. In Ax 2012, Workflow templates have been renamed workflow types.

Workflow Design

• Set condition to activate the workflow
• Set notification for workflow events
• Define manual tasks, automated tasks and approvals supported for the workflow
• Setting conditional decision, manual decision, parallel activity, sub-workflows, Line-item workflow etc.

Activate workflow

• After we create a workflow in Microsoft Dynamics AX, we must implement a way to activate the workflow at runtime to display the workflow in your application.
• Application users start a workflow when they click the Submit button on forms that are enabled for workflow and have a valid workflow configuration.

Out-of-the-box workflow types

To create a workflow, you must first select the type of workflow that you want to create. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 has a of list of types of workflows that we can create in each module. The list also describes

• what each type of workflow is used for.
• whether the workflows of each type are associated with a specific company in the organization or with the whole organization.