Data entries are considered the major factors of information quality, during the analysis phase implementation team exploring the reporting requirements, the process owners, and top management requires a reliable information and these information are generated from the data entry, we have to control the data entry to ensure the entered data are formatted in the required way, consultant could fulfill this requirements by default some information on master data which are automatically populated in the transaction, change filed to be mandatory, and identify the required dimensions on the transaction level.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 offers a very powerful entry mechanism which build on the account structure (new feature in AX 2012), the Segmented Entry Control, this function simplifies the data entry and control the complex combination of accounts and financial dimension, in the previous versions it was separated in more than one filed, in AX 2012 the entry are segmented in one line.
It is a simple cheat sheet window gives the user hints which segment should be entered, in addition to the lookup for this segment as well.
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