Dynamics Ax 2009 – Enterprise portal – Page deployment

A page in Enterprise portal is defined by 2 objects in Ax 2009

1. Web menu item URL

Path AOT –> Web –> Web Menu Items –> URLs

2. Page definition

Path AOT –> Web –> Static Files –> Page definitions

Every time a Page is changed (added / removed user controls / web parts) the page definition needs to be updated.

To do this locate the URL of the web page in the AOT

and right click –> Import

After importing the file, look at the page definition for the corresponding URL. It will not have an object in the current working Layer.

Deploying specific EP pages:

Right click on the page definition –> deploy page

This deploys the page and a message is shown

This deployment method is not supported for 64 bit machines, and some of the 64 bit machine I have worked with give issues and may not deploy. The only way to deploy it is by using the AxUpdatePortal.exe

NOTE: AxUpdatePortal.exe will redeploy the entire enterprise portal

MSDN Enterprise portal blog : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/epblog/