Founder and principal of East Coast Dynamics, a Microsoft Certified Business Professional - GP, Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft MVP.
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http://gp2themax.blogspot.com/ February 2010 - Posts
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The is the prescribed order for running Reconcile ( Tools>Utilities>xxxmodule>Reconcile ) - 1. Sales Order Processing 2. Purchase Order Processing 3. Inventory 4. Project Accounting (if used) 5. Field Service (if used) Running Reconcile in this...
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When looking for the Batch ID in a Financial Transactions SmartList , one would think that if you add the Batch Number column, you'd see the Batch ID in one of those fields. But noooooooooo . . . that's the case only if the batch isn't posted...
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If this happens in your company, here's the fix - https://mbs.microsoft.com/knowledgebase/KBDisplay.aspx?scid=kb$en-us$864913&wa=wsignin1.0 Note: You must have access to either CustomerSource or PartnerSource to access this document. If you don't...
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Ever wonder what the setting in User Preferences called Horizontal Scroll Arrows does? * click image to enlarge For companies that have very long account numbers, checking this box enables scrolling arrows in account lookup windows to make it possible...
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From the GP forums this morning comes the question 'How do I capitalize an asset without depreciating it?' The poster had received some fixed assets as gifts and didn't want to depreciate them. Here's how you do it - very simple. In the...
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Here's a rather obscure window in GP that I don't see used often. Go Cards>Inventory>Item History to view. * click image to enlarge As you can see, this window provides a wealth of historical information about the sales and usage of your...
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I'm sure this has never happened to anyone, but if by chance you ever inadvertently close the Current FA Fiscal Year, it will prevent you from posting depreciation into any period in the current fiscal year. How do you get around that? It's pretty...
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Did you know that you can perform searches and filter using wildcards in SmartList? It's true. Because SmartList is a query tool that uses SQL-like search functions, SQL wildcards can be used successfully in SmartList. So you ask, what are the SQL...
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I generally don't get into the technical side of GP in the Tip42day but this is just too good not to share. A user on the https://community.dynamics.com/forums/32.aspx forum posed the following question - Is there any column that will show the last...
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You issue a check to a supplier and then someone erroneously voids that check. How do you recover from this without having to contact the vendor, issue a new check, and stop payment on the old one? First, go Cards>Financial>Checkbook and select...
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Have you ever noted duplicate JE numbers in your system? There are at least three reasons why you might see this. 1. Reversing journal entries use the same JE number 2. Recurring journal entries (actually, recurring batches) repeat journal entry numbers...
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At times, you may have a non-interest bearing cash account with no activity for the period. When you try to reconcile the checkbook, you get the following error - *click image to enlarge Here's how to deal with this issue - enter a $.01 dummy Increase...
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Normally, when entering a sales order for an inventory item, GP checks to see if there's enough stock on hand to fulfill the order. If there is not, then the Quantity Shortage window opens to allow you to decide how to handle the shortage, from which...
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Occasionally, or maybe more often, you process a receiving transaction for a multiple of an Item at an Extended Cost that isn't evenly divisible by the quantity. Take a look at the screenshot below, for example. * click image to enlarge This is a...
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I'll bet everyone has been wondering what the maximum note size is that can be entered into a note field. From our friend and GP developer extraordinaire, Mr. David Musgrave, the maximum number of characters a note field will hold is 32,000. Now,...
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Most of us know that closing a period in GP ( Tools>Setup>Company>Fiscal Periods ) prevents posting new transactions into that period. But . . . did you know that saved, unposted transactions that exist for that period can still be posted even...
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If you have a need for tracking project or job-type information but don't want to implement full-blown Project Accounting in GP, you might want to consider the Job Costing feature in GP Manufacturing. For example, suppose your business is constructing...
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This question was posed on one of the forums yesterday. The answer is yes - hotfixes are cumulative - meaning they include all previous hotfix and service pack modifications to-date. From Microsoft PartnerSource - 'All service packs, hotfixes, tax...
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In GP10, you can print multiple sales invoices in one step. Select the Sales tile in the Navigation Pane, then select Receivables Transactions . Filter the resulting list for the type(s) of documents you want to print, date range, etc. When you have the...
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If you're using GP10 and need to print a year-to-date GL Trial Balance that includes non-consecutive account numbers, here, courtesy of the Dynamics GP Blogster himself - Mariano Gomez - is the way to do it. Click on the Financial tile in the Navigation...
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