In Dynamics AX we
can use same the information for different Companies (or legal entities). Even
though all the data is stored in same physical database,
Axapta will determine which data is associated with which company:
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Axapta manages this by using the system field dataAreaId to
define which company the data belongs to.
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Company or a legal entity can be said as a record in the
CompanyInfo table.
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dataAreaId field will be found in each and every table which is
used to store data create/updated from an Axapta form.
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And whenever a new record is added, dataAreaId is automatically
initialized to the current company id.
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Whenever a user requests to view data from forms and reports or
when the application fetches data using a select statement, Axapta will always
return data from the current company, as a filter for dataAreaId is
automatically added by the kernel.
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All the created
companies will be stored in System Table name DataArea.
The below are few areas where multiple companies is useful:
1.
If we wish to train new staff, we can create a new ‘test’
company to perform various examples at the same time the ‘live’ data is not
damaged.
2.
You may wish to have a ‘planning’ or ‘budget’ company where you
can prepare future business models.
3. You may have more than one physical company that handles completely
different business, but uses the same systems functionality. You can have separate
information to support each company
