We have learned that today the RTW is officially released, but this is mainly for the “tier-1” countries. I’m a bit jealous on Denmark and Iceland that are in the first support release wave, and that Norway have to wait until H2 2016 to get country specific support. But when I dig into the AX RTW I will find much of the country specific elements already in place. They have been included in the transfer from AX 2012.

Only one small Issue. Microsoft have hardcoded that the unsupported features cannot be used. I guess (and hope) that it is for a reason. If you try to create an unsupported company for Finland, you get;

Many of the localized fields needed to run Finland is then hidden or disabled.

But there is a way to “Hack” this. Comment out your country from SysCountryRegionCode.onCountryRegionSupportedCheck():

Then compile and deploy. Then the fields related to Finland etc will open up.

I know I’m are moving into uncharted terrain, and this is disabled for a reason. But we start already now to promote and sell AX 7, and then we expect Microsoft to stick to the release schedule, and make the Dynamics AX ready for all countries as planned. We also have several customers that don’t need the localized company specific functionality, and they don’t want to be constantly reminded J.

Disclaimer; If you do this for a production environment you are on your own!

Hacking Dax’ing