How Documents are Exchanged

AIF provides an extensible framework that supports multiple asynchronous
transports, and synchronous transport using web services, to exchange documents
in XML format with external systems.

You can use AIF to either send data into Microsoft Dynamics AX, called aninbound exchange, or retrieve data during an outbound exchange. An example of
an inbound exchange would be an external system sending a sales order saved to
the Microsoft Dynamics AX database. An example of an outbound exchange
would be an external system sending a request for a purchase order and receiving
the purchase order back. The inbound and outbound exchanges can be
categorized as follows:

• Send data: Microsoft Dynamics AX sends documents to an external
system.

• Send data in response to requests: Microsoft Dynamics AX
receives requests for documents from another authorized system,
retrieves the requested information (such as a document or a list of
documents) from the Microsoft Dynamics AX database, and returns
it to the requesting system, with appropriate filtering and security.
The request message would contain the entity keys or a query
specifies the data that the external system is requesting.

• Receive and create data: Microsoft Dynamics AX receives
documents from another authorized system and creates new records
in the Microsoft Dynamics AX database.

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Hossein Karimi