Retail in eCommerce Stores: Development and Customization for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 introduces a new suite of features that help you deploy, manage, and customize an online sales channel that is fully integrated with Microsoft Dynamics AX. By using this new suite of e-Commerce features, you can centrally manage products, merchandizing, and order fulfillment for all aspects of your online sales channel directly in Microsoft Dynamics AX. The runtime component enables you to deliver content and retail services in a scalable way. A new starter online store accelerates the development of a highly customized online channel. The starter online store includes the patterns and best practices that are required to support production-ready deployments, including powerful, search-driven, adaptive experiences offered by the SharePoint Server 2013. This course on Microsoft Dynamics for Ecommerce: Customization and Development provides lessons and labs on how to customize the Ecommerce site. Additionally, this course also provides information on architecture, main components and best practices for development on ecommerce site.

Audience profile

This course is intended for all developers of Microsoft Dynamics AX partners who want to learn how to customize and extend the functionality of the online store deployed on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 for Retail and consultants who will be involved in deploying, managing and customizing the online sales channel in Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail implementations.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Explain the features and components of the Ecommerce site
• Explain the high level logical design of the Ecommerce site
• List the customizable controls available for Ecommerce
• Describe the entity mappings between SharePoint and Dynamics AX
• Install Retail SDK
• Install the development tools
• Configure the storefront solution for development
• Change the look and feel of the Ecommerce site
• Change the behavior of the Ecommerce site
• Identify the different components for the e-commerce site, which can be extended for customization purpose
• Create a SharePoint WebPart
• Add a new AJAX Service to the Storefront
• Configure, customize and extend search in your Ecommerce site
• Configure commerce Runtime (CRT) for your Ecommerce site
• Identify default services available in CRT
• Extend the CRT Services
• Integrate a new shipping services in CRT
• Identify testing considerations
• Test custom code deployment across environments
• Participate in the development and customization of the online storefront.