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July 2009 - Posts

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  Getting to Phase 2 Bill Kennedy of Energized Accounting has a great article out titled Getting to Phase 2. It's almost a year old which means that it's about time for phase 2 of the article's life. Bill pushes, nudges, cajoles and questions your reasoning for... Read More... Published: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 02:00 AM Tags: System, News

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  Kits and BOM's and Components Christina Phillips has a new post up on Kits, Bills of Material and Components over Dynamics GP Land. She does a great job of covering Kits vs. Bills of Material along with the pros and cons of each. Make sure you check it out. Read More... Published: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 01:00 AM Tags: Inventory

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  Next Monday In Crystal Reports Fellow Dynamics GP MVP Victoria Yudin has a new post up covering getting next Monday's date in Crystal Reports. I'm still dealing with this Monday so I'm not sure why she's already looking ahead to next Monday! Read More... Published: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 12:00 AM Tags: Reporting

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  Weekly Review: Seeing Red A surprising number of long time users still don't use this so I'll cover here. What is it? Show required fields on a form in RED. In Great Plains select User Preferences Icon from the shortcut bar. Select Display. On the right under Required... Read More... Published: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 11:00 PM Tags: System

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  Expanding the GL Trx Entry Grid with Modifier Over at Developing for Dynamics GP, David Musgrave has a new post up on how to expand the GL transaction scrolling window (grid) when the main window is opened. The method he describes uses Modifier and David includes all the screenshots and code needed... Read More... Published: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 02:00 AM Tags: Development, GL

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  A Dynamics GP Advocate Mariano Gomez has a new article up at MSDynamicsWorld.com covering the use of an Implementation Advocate in Dynamics GP implementation. Read More... Published: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 01:00 AM Tags: News

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  The Art of Dashboarding The Microsoft Dynamics GP UK Blog has more on new dashboard features available in the new GP 10 SP3 Virtual PC Image for partners. Read More... Published: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 12:00 AM Tags: Business Intelligence

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  Dynamics GP in Cyrillic? Mariano Gomez showed me a sneak peak last week of some work he is doing to translate Dynamics GP for Russian users. Now he's got a blog post up showing off some of his work and it's pretty cool. Read More... Published: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 11:00 PM Tags: System, News

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  New URL for Inside Microsoft BI Inside Microsoft Business Intelligence has a new URL at http://insidemsftbi.com . They are refocusing the site after the changes in Performance Point. If you use BI with Dynamics GP this is a great place to keep up with changes in Microsoft's Business... Read More... Published: Monday, July 27, 2009, 01:00 AM Tags: Business Intelligence

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  Hello World! Mariano Gomez takes on Visual Studio Tools for Dynamics GP in an upcoming series of posts. If you've been wanted to get started with programming for Dynamics GP, this is a great place to start. Read More... Published: Monday, July 27, 2009, 01:00 AM Tags: Development

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  Dynamics GP and Simple Solutions Christina Phillips has a new post up on some issues she had with Project Accounting. It's a great example of how sometimes the best solutions are the simplest solutions. Read More... Published: Monday, July 27, 2009, 12:00 AM Tags: Project

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  Do You Know EFT for Payables? EFT for Payables is the Do You Know topic of the week at Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP. Check out all the new EFT goodness in v10. Read More... Published: Monday, July 27, 2009, 12:00 AM Tags: Purchasing

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  Weekly Dynamic: Turn off Map Integration We've covered map integration in GP before but what if you want to turn it off completely instead of just choosing between local MapPoint and web based MapPoint? Well that's easy to do too. Simply pick User Preference from the Shortcut Bar. In... Read More... Published: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 11:00 PM Tags: System, Sales, Purchasing

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  Dynamics GP Project Accounting Retainers The DynamicsBlogger site has a nice Q&A up covering Retainer Fee transactions in Project Accounting for Dynamics GP. Read More... Published: Friday, July 24, 2009, 04:22 AM Tags: Project

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  Weekly Review: Account Rollup I stumbled on this little gem in v 7.5 so I don't even know what version it was added in to but it definitely still works well in v10. If you need to look at groups of accounts this is the inquiry for you. You can even perform calculations! What is... Read More... Published: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 11:00 PM Tags: System, Reporting, GL

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  Is Caps Lock On When Logging Into Dynamics GP? If you've ever managed to lock yourself out of Dynamics GP because your Caps Lock was on, Patrick Roth has the answer for you at Developing for Dynamics GP. He's posted some VBA that will warn you if Caps Lock is on when you try to log in to Dynamics... Read More... Published: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 02:00 AM Tags: Development, System

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  Online GP Conference for the Great Plains Arabia Community The Great Plains Arabia community is having an online conference on July 29 covering the use of Excel as a reporting and analytic tool connected to SQL Server. Fellow GP MVP Monzer Osama is doing the presenting so I'm sure it will be a great session... Read More... Published: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 01:00 AM Tags: SQL, News, Reporting

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  Dynamics GP 11 VPC Coming Dynamics GP MVP Mariano Gomez has i nfo about the upcoming release of the beta of GP 11 . Mariano says that it's coming this winter. As it happens, I saw a list today of expected new and improved features and there were some nice additions. Sorry... Read More... Published: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 12:00 AM

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  FIFO Stock Status That Balances to the GL Over at gp2themax fellow MVP Frank Hamelly has a new post up describing how to modify the Stock Status report if you are using FIFO to ensure that it balances to the GL. No HITB report required. Read More... Published: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11:00 PM Tags: Reporting, Inventory

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  Dynamics GP 10 SP3 VPC Available For partners, Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP is highlighting the availability of the Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 SP3 Technical Demonstration Toolkit/VPC. This is a revamped VPC to better provided demonstrations of the latest Dynamics GP release. Visit Inside... Read More... Published: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 12:00 AM

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  Dynamics GP in Arabic? Yep, you read that right. Fellow MVP Mohammad Daoud has arranged for the translation of all of the strings and messages in the system into Arabic. It's not perfect yet but it's still impressive. It's worth going to Mohammad's blog just... Read More... Published: Monday, July 20, 2009, 11:00 PM Tags: Development, News

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  Creative Payment Terms Mariano has a nice new post up on dealing with custom/creative payment terms in Dynamics GP. Read More... Published: Monday, July 20, 2009, 02:00 AM Tags: SQL, Development, Sales, Purchasing

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  Do You Know...Excel Report Builder? In their latest "Do you know" posting, Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP takes a look at Excel Report Builder. It's worth a look for you too! Read More... Published: Monday, July 20, 2009, 01:00 AM Tags: Reporting

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  Dynamics GP Trial Balance in Excel using FRx Victoria Yudin has a great new post up covering creating a Dynamics GP Trial balance in FRx and then exporting it to Excel. Read More... Published: Monday, July 20, 2009, 12:00 AM Tags: Reporting

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  Weekly Dynamic: Horizontal Scroll Arrows This is an old tip but still worth mentioning. For companies with account numbers longer than the entry screen, you can add horizontal scroll arrows to allow users to scroll back and forth to see the whole account number. To turn this on, select User... Read More... Published: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 11:00 PM Tags: System