Create an Activity Center
An activity center is a Web part page that you can add to your Web site to provide access to data, document libraries, lists, and site groups for a particular business activity, such as sales.
You can add a link for the activity center to the menu bar on a Web site home page. By default, the menu bar appears at the top of the home page.
Microsoft Dynamics AX includes several activity centers. For more information, see Web Site Activity Centers.
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Navigate to your Web site.
To locate the URL, display the navigation pane in Microsoft Dynamics AX by clicking Navigation Pane on the View menu, and then click > > > . The URL is displayed in the field.
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Create content for the activity center by doing the following:
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Create a Web part page.
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Add a Web menu Web part item to the page, and then modify the Web Menu Web Part properties to display the EPGlobalMenu menu.
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Add additional Web parts to display Web forms and Web reports, and then modify Web part properties as needed.
For more information, see Create Web Part Pages and Web Part Properties.
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To create a document library, list, and site group, and link to this information from the Web part page that you created in step 2, use Microsoft SharePoint Services. For more information, see SharePoint Services Help.
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Define access control lists for the document library, list, and site group that you created in step 3 by doing the following:
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In the Application Object Tree (AOT), expand the Web node, expand the Web Files node, and then expand the Static Files node. Right-click SharepointSecurity, and then click Edit to update the SharepointSecurity.xml file.
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Add a Group element to the CustomSiteGroups element for the site group.
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Add a DocumentLibrary element to the DocumentLibraries element for the document library and list.
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Save your changes.
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Do the following to add a link for the Web part page that you created in step 2 to the menu bar on the Web site home page. By default, the menu bar appears at the top of the home page.
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Create a Web menu item that links to the Web part page. For more information, see Create Web Menu Items for Web Part Pages.
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In the AOT, expand the Web node, and then expand the Web Menus node. Right-click EPGlobalMenu, click New, and then click Menu Item.
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Right-click Menuitem, right-click Properties, and then select the Web menu item that you created from the MenuItemName property list.
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Right-click EPGlobalMenu, and then click Save.
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Assign security keys to the activity center content and menus by doing the following:
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Locate the Web forms and Web reports that are displayed on the Web part page (see step 2) by expanding the Web\Web Forms node and the Web\Web Reports node in the AOT.
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Set the SecurityKey property on Web form and Web report controls by right-clicking a control, and then clicking Properties.
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Locate the Web menu item you created in step 5 by expanding the Web\Web Menu Items\URLs node in the AOT.
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Set the SecurityKey property by right-clicking the menu item, and then clicking Properties.
Note A security key is used to determine which user groups have access to a feature. For more information, see Create and Apply Security Keys.
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Add a user group that is associated with the activity center by doing the following:
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Create a user group, and then name the group. For more information, see Manage User Groups.
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Assign the security keys that you used in step 6 to the user group, and then click to create a file named EPSecurity_<groupname>.asg for the user group permissions.
For more information, see Manage Enterprise Portal security.
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In the AOT, right-click Resources, click Create from File, and then select the .asg file that you created in step 7b.
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