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Error Consuming Dynamics AX 2012 AIF Service through Sharepoint 2010 BCS (Business Connectivity Service)

Greetings Friends!

I have successfully developed a custom AIF Service in Dynamics AX 2012 (CU3 build) to create Vendor Invoice Register Journals. To test my AIF Service, I created a test harness in Visual Studio 2010 (Windows Application) to consume my AIF Service. This all works good!

Now, I'm taking this service to the next level so that I can consume it through our Sharepoint site (Please note this is a standalone enterprise Sharepoint site and not the Dynamics AX 2012 integrated Enterprise Portal one).

I'm using BCS (Business Connectivity Services) in Sharepoint 2010 to talk to Dynamics AX 2012 via webservice. So, when I consume this service from BCS (i.e. I created a new External Content Type via Sharepoint Designer 2010) and then use WebService as the Connection type in BCS. And it comes up with the below error.

Please read this post by Brandon to find a step by step info on the same issue which I'm facing http://instructorbrandon.com/dynamics-ax-aif-tutorial-series-part-3-aif-document-services-and-a-sharepoint-infopath-forms-step-by-step-for-power-users-part-e/

Here in the above blog, he managed to get a workaround by using Enterprise Search which comes out of the box in Dynamics AX 2012, However in my scenario we are not using EP :(

Any ideas, suggestions or comments appreciated? At the moment, I'm thinking of writing a wrapper .Net service between AIF and BCS and then consume the .Net Service from within BCS. But this is a workaround not a good one, I would have liked to directly tie BCS with AIF.

Cheers,

Dilip

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