Using the designer in AX 2012 for designing POS-buttons, receipts and whatever usually works for us eggheads with admin rights to the servers. But when it comes to the real users they might end up with an error like this:
What you need to do is to grant the users that need to work with the designer some additional rights directly to the Dynamics AX database. Scary stuff and something we’d rather not do; but in this case there’s no way around it. The good news is that it is only a few tables.
Here’s what to do:
Log on to the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, right click on the Dynamics AX database and select New Query.
Paste in this script and execute it. It will create a database role with the appropriate rights to the tables
- RETAILBUTTONGRID
- RETAILBUTTONGRIDBUTTONS
- RETAILFORMLAYOUT
- RETAILIMAGES
- RETAILTERMINALCUSTOMFIELD
- RETAILTILLLAYOUT
- RETAILOPERATIONS
and select rights on these:
- RETAILSALESTAXOVERRIDE
- RETAILSTORETENDERTYPETABLE
- RETAILSALESTAXOVERRIDEGROUPMEMBER
- INVENTITEMBARCODE
- INVENTTABLE
- RETAILCHANNELTABLE
- ECORESPRODUCTTRANSLATION
Notice, that the names of these tables may vary from AX version to AX version, but you’ll probably be able to locate the right tables.
The script:
CREATE ROLE [AX_POS_Designer]
GO
GRANT DELETE ON [dbo].[RETAILBUTTONGRID] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT INSERT ON [dbo].[RETAILBUTTONGRID] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[RETAILBUTTONGRID] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT UPDATE ON [dbo].[RETAILBUTTONGRID] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT DELETE ON [dbo].[RETAILBUTTONGRIDBUTTONS] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT INSERT ON [dbo].[RETAILBUTTONGRIDBUTTONS] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[RETAILBUTTONGRIDBUTTONS] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT UPDATE ON [dbo].[RETAILBUTTONGRIDBUTTONS] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT DELETE ON [dbo].[RETAILFORMLAYOUT] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT INSERT ON [dbo].[RETAILFORMLAYOUT] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[RETAILFORMLAYOUT] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT UPDATE ON [dbo].[RETAILFORMLAYOUT] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT DELETE ON [dbo].[RETAILTILLLAYOUT] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT INSERT ON [dbo].[RETAILTILLLAYOUT] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[RETAILTILLLAYOUT] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT UPDATE ON [dbo].[RETAILTILLLAYOUT] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT DELETE ON [dbo].[RETAILIMAGES] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT INSERT ON [dbo].[RETAILIMAGES] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[RETAILIMAGES] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT UPDATE ON [dbo].[RETAILIMAGES] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT DELETE ON [dbo].[RETAILTERMINALCUSTOMFIELD] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT INSERT ON [dbo].[RETAILTERMINALCUSTOMFIELD] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[RETAILTERMINALCUSTOMFIELD] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT UPDATE ON [dbo].[RETAILTERMINALCUSTOMFIELD] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT DELETE ON [dbo].[RETAILOPERATIONS] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT INSERT ON [dbo].[RETAILOPERATIONS] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[RETAILOPERATIONS] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT UPDATE ON [dbo].[RETAILOPERATIONS] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[RETAILSALESTAXOVERRIDE] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[RETAILSTORETENDERTYPETABLE] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[RETAILSALESTAXOVERRIDEGROUPMEMBER] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[INVENTITEMBARCODE] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[INVENTTABLE] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[RETAILCHANNELTABLE] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[ECORESPRODUCTTRANSLATION] TO [AX_POS_Designer]
GO
Now you’ve got the role. Next step is to create the required logins, map them to a database and the newly created role.
Log in to AX and check that the designer starts up successfully.
