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Integration of Weighing Scale using "COMM Port" in AX 2012 R3

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I need a help from you all.

I am supposed to capture the weight of a Finished Good & integrate it with Microsoft Dynamics using "Comm Port".

Please help. Thanks in advance.

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syed baber 11,633 on at

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Hi Deepak,

Create a custom service in AX, expose it by deploying the service group. Afterwards, you can call this service from a .NET application to pass the weight information to AX.

Please let me know if you need further help in this regard.

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Baber.

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Thanks for your help Baber. I am really not sure how to achieve this. Can you help me out with any documentation or Link so that It can guide me to achieve this.

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Martin Dráb 237,795 Most Valuable Professional on at

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What is "Comm Port"? Do you mean serial (COM) port, or something completely different?

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Its serial Serial COM port Mr. Drab. Can you please suggest any approach Sir.

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Hi Deepak,

Here is the TechNet link related to services:

technet.microsoft.com/.../hh509053.aspx

Here is a blog post about creating custom service in AX:

axblog4u.wordpress.com/.../dynamics-ax2012-create-custom-service-using-x

You can create a .NET application that reads your COM port, reads the data from there and then call the custom service, you developed in AX to update the desired data in AX.

Please verify and let me know if you have further queries.

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Baber.

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syed baber 11,633 on at

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And here is the post which explains how to read and write from the serial port in C#:

stackoverflow.com/.../how-to-read-and-write-from-the-serial-port-in-c-sharp

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Baber.

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Martin Dráb 237,795 Most Valuable Professional on at

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First of all, ensure yourself that you don't have any higher-level API, before going to low-level development involving the serial port directly. It may not be fun.

.NET offers System.IO.Ports.SerialPort class for this purpose, therefore I would write all the communication in .NET and expose a .NET library or a service to AX.

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syed baber 11,633 on at

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Hi Deepak,

Martin provided you an another option, so it really depends on your requirement. If you want to trigger the data update in AX based on the incoming data on COM port, then you need to use the .NET code to read the data and then call the custom service to update the data in AX.

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Baber.

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Hi Baber,

Can this work in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations too? I want to read a USB scale and then push the data from the USB Scale to my Dynamics 365 table.

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Martin Dráb 237,795 Most Valuable Professional on at

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You still can use C# libraries discussed above, but you can't directly connect to a port on a local machine from cloud. You need a local app pushing data to Azure or working as a gateway.

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