Change password at login in POS

Microsoft Dynamics AX for retail has a feature which allows worker to change the password as they login to the pos. Today I am writing this blog to tell you the loopholes in this feature.

First of all how to configure this feature in AX. Go to Retail => Common => Workers and select the worker. Tick the checkbox under pos authentication which says "User needs to change the password at next logon", and run the staff job(1060) to push the configuration to store. More details on this are available on this link AX for Retail 2012 R2: Password maintenance in the POS

Mpos and hardware station

Hi folks, I was testing the hardware integration with Mpos and was surprised with the cool feature of hardware station.

Mpos can work with hardware in two different ways, local hardware station or the web based hardware station. Let me tell you first about web based hardware station. It is typical MVC web api application which is hosted on IIS. Mpos uses ajax calls to communicate with this form of hardware station.

Mpos island mode

Hi all, you might be thinking why this strange name, but this is the new feature of Mpos in AX 2012 R3 CU8 onwards which allows it to directly connect to channel database like Epos does. This can be seen from the Mpos connection status in below image. The left one is Island mode and the right one is retail server mode.

Retail POS report

With the introduction of Mpos, Microsoft has introduced a new report framework to show small, light weight report directly from retail channel database. These reports are available for both Epos and Mpos.