The Dynamics GP Blogster

Moving Items out of Inventory and into Fixed Assets

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:11:00 GMT

I love challenging customers (and partners) to use their Microsoft Dynamics GP system in very innovative ways. I like hearing things like 'this cannot be done ' or ' there isn't a way to do that '. If there is a way, trust me, I will...(read more)

New Article on MSDynamicsWorld: "Support Incidents vs. Consulting Engagements"

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:58:00 GMT

I am back at MSDynamicsWorld with a new article looking at how Microsoft Dynamics GP support incidents may (relatively quickly) end up being consulting engagements . Please take a look at this new post as it is full with useful guidelines... it may just...(read more)

New Site Features!

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:36:00 GMT

Dear followers, I have been working at large on a few projects hoping to wrap things up before Convergence Atlanta where I will be presenting 2 sessions with my compadre David Musgrave . As such I have been a bit out of touch with publishing new articles...(read more)

VBA - Suppressing CTRL+Break or CTRL+C in VBA Customizations

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:31:00 GMT

VBA is by far one of the best customization tools available to Microsoft Dynamics GP developers and as such it is widely used across a number of production environments to deliver functionality that ranges in various degrees of complexity. However, one...(read more)

SQL - Autogenarating Customer IDs

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:33:00 GMT

I have been swamped lately working on 3 different projects, and it's been difficult to get back to blogging as often as I am used to. However, this week I found myself with an interesting situation where my client needed to import a customer master...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2010 Sessions

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:14:00 GMT

As mentioned in my earlier post, See you at Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2010 , I would provide details of the sessions that David and I will be presenting. So here they, please make sure you attend these sessions as we have some great material to show...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 - General Availability Release

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Just got off a conference call with some of the Microsoft Dynamics GP executives who announced general availability of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010, the highly anticipated new release of Microsoft's ERP solution for the SMB market, on May 1, 2010 -...(read more)

New Article on MSDynamicsWorld: MVP Frank Hamelly on "Keeping your Axe Sharp"

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:21:00 GMT

"If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.' - Abraham Lincoln" MVP Frank Hamelly quotes Abraham Lincoln in his new MSDynamicsWorld article and presents a tale of sorts to illustrate the...(read more)

Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP Build 12 now available

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:20:00 GMT

For those of you who had the opportunity to be at last year's Microsoft Dynamics GP Technical Conference and attended the Troubleshooting session presented by David Musgrave and I, you had a preview of the administrative and troubleshooting capabilities...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 - Service Call Management Enhancements, Part 2

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:15:00 GMT

You had a chance to review the first set of enhancements in my Part 1 article . Now we will review a second set of features to conclude the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Service Call Management enhancements series. Generate payables vouchers for subcontractor...(read more)

"You have too many note windows open. Close a note window" Error Message

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:00:00 GMT

Recently, a system administrator reported a user getting this error and was asking what could be the possible cause for this. Replicating the error is very simple, and for this, we need a Microsoft Dynamics GP window where many note windows can be entered...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 - Service Call Management Enhancements, Part 1

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:53:00 GMT

As I prepare to do more work with the Field Service Series modules, I wanted to blog about a few of the enhancements to the Service Call Management module in the upcoming Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 . So let's get started. 1. Users now have the ability...(read more)

VST - Modal Dialogs handling make their way out of VBA into VST

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:35:00 GMT

Over at Developing for Dynamics GP , Patrick Roth has a new article describing the new Visual Studio Tools 2010 shiny features , in particular Modal Dialog handling, passing table buffers as parameters, and function and procedure notifications. Patrick...(read more)

New Article on MSDynamicsWorld: Michael Johnson on "Filtering Salesperson-specific data with SSRS"

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:46:00 GMT

"It didn't take long to figure out that the problem wasn't with Business Portal, but rather the way they were trying to use it and NOT using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Both tools have a place in their environment, but one is not...(read more)

From the Newsgroups: Multicurrency POP Receipts

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:15:00 GMT

Welcome to another weekly edition of the new From the Newsgroups blog entry. This week's topic revolves around Multicurrency POP Receipts and a feature available in GP. As usual, no names will be given out, just the question and the answer. Q: Functional...(read more)

IM - How to group Integration Manager transactions based on transaction date

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:33:00 GMT

Just recently, I fielded a question where the user wanted to group a number of customer invoice transactions in a file based on the invoice date. The file happened to contain invoices downloaded from the billing system in a date range, for example 02...(read more)

"Advanced Excel for Microsoft Dynamics GP" Training

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:47:00 GMT

My friend, MVP Mark Polino is hosting a 2-day class from March 1 - 2, 2010 at the IBIS, Inc., offices in Norcross, Georgia (20 minutes north of downtown Atlanta). Mark promises some blood after you leave this class as nothing will hold you back anymore...(read more)

See you at Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2010

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:50:00 GMT

Great News! I am going to my first Microsoft Convergence conference as a presenter and will be presenting two concurrent sessions (more on this soon) with my partner in crime, David Musgrave . David and I presented together back in November at the Microsoft...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 - International Enhancements

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:08:00 GMT

After spending a week in Costa Rica enjoying the spectacular beaches and the fabulous weather in San Jose (although my purpose in San Jose was to deliver Microsoft Dexterity training), I thought it was just appropriate to blog about the international...(read more)

New article on MSDynamicsWorld: MVP Victoria Yudin on "Taking charge of your own support"

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:26:00 GMT

"When I first started using Microsoft Dynamics GP almost twenty years ago... there were limited options for getting help" MVP Victoria Yudin gives an account of her 20-year career history with Microsoft Dynamics GP and how the support landscape...(read more)

From the Newsgroups: FRx XBRL

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:54:00 GMT

I am starting a weekly section called From the Newsgroups intended to bring some of the most intriguing questions and informative responses from the online technical community. To keep things relatively anonymous, no names will be given out... just the...(read more)

Changing the Hyperspace property for a lookup button added with Modifier

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:18:00 GMT

It sounds like some word out of Captain Kirk's vocabulary, but for Dexterity developers Hyperspace is a well known property that allows a Dexterity-based application to run the change script for a push button, i.e., a lookup button, without moving...(read more)

What's new in Microsoft Dexterity 11.0

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:19:00 GMT

The excitement around Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 could not be any higher. Traffic on my site has doubled since I began releasing information about the upcoming version, which is currently being beta tested by a number of partners and have even seen a...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 - Navigation Enhancements

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:10:00 GMT

After the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Security Enhancements mentioned in my previous article, I wanted touch base on some of the enhancements to the overall navigation experience. One of the first things that jump out right at you when you get to the desktop...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 - Security Enhancements

The Dynamics GP Blogster — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT

This article opens the series on the new features and enhancements available in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010. I will start out with something dear to the heart of systems administrators and that's security. So let's take a look at the first set...(read more)