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Blog Post:
MVP updates: Victoria Yudin's MVP status renewed and Leslie Vail's Developing Microsoft GP Business Applications book
Developing For Dynamics GP
I am still on leave for another week, but thought I would post about some updates from our Most Valuable Professional (MVP) community. Victoria Yudin has been awarded MVP status for the ninth consecutive year. Well done on the fantastic achievement. Have a look at her article below: Happy New...
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6 Jan 2013
Blog Post:
MVP updates: Victoria Yudin's MVP status renewed and Leslie Vail's Developing Microsoft GP Business Applications book
Developing For Dynamics GP
I am still on leave for another week, but thought I would post about some updates from our Most Valuable Professional (MVP) community. Victoria Yudin has been awarded MVP status for the ninth consecutive year. Well done on the fantastic achievement. Have a look at her article below: Happy New...
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6 Jan 2013
Blog Post:
Quick Tip: Working with VBA, Extender and Sales Transaction Entry
Developing For Dynamics GP
I have completed the development project I was working last week and have another Quick Tip that came out of the project. For the previous Quick Tips related to this project have a look at Quick Tip: Passing Variables to SQL Server and Quick Tip: Passing Date and Time Variables to SQL Server . The...
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23 Dec 2011
Blog Post:
Quick Tip: Passing Date and Time Variables to SQL Server
Developing For Dynamics GP
As a follow on from yesterday's post, Quick Tip: Passing Variables to SQL Server , I wanted to discuss the related topic about passing of date and time variables. There are two main issues we see with passing Dates and Times and both can cause SQL Server to throw the following exception: /...
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15 Dec 2011
Blog Post:
Quick Tip: Passing Variables to SQL Server
Developing For Dynamics GP
Wow, the week is almost over and I am yet to post something. This week I was working on a small development project using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to execute some commands at the SQL Server level after some user interface events. The code to be executed needed to have values from the windows...
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15 Dec 2011
Blog Post:
Microsoft Convergence 2011 Atlanta - Day 2
Anonymous
Today was the first "Official" day of the Convergence conference. After meeting Leslie and Sheila for breakfast, we went to the Open Keynote: Winning with Microsoft Dynamics . The session is now available from Virtual Convergence , please use this link: Winning with Microsoft Dynamics . ...
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12 Apr 2011
Blog Post:
Customizations to the Cash Receipts (RM_Cash_Receipts) window failing for GP 2010
Anonymous
I have had a number of support cases and newsgroup posts recently about Customization to the Cash Receipts (RM_Cash_Receipts) window failing to work for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 when they worked for previous versions. The problem is that the code appears to work, but the Document Number field is...
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17 Mar 2011
Blog Post:
Dexterity Training in Orlando (May 16th to 20th 2011)
Anonymous
Finally, you have another opportunity to learn the foundations of Developing for Dynamics GP using Dexterity. The Microsoft Dynamics GP client application is developed using Dexterity. Many of the features of the Dynamics GP interface are the way they are because of the how Dexterity works. Having...
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22 Feb 2011
Blog Post:
Dexterity Training in Fargo (Feb 21st to 25th 2011)
Anonymous
Finally, you have another opportunity to learn the foundations of Developing for Dynamics GP using Dexterity. The Microsoft Dynamics GP client application is developed using Dexterity. Many of the features of the Dynamics GP interface are the way they are because of the how Dexterity works. Having...
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14 Feb 2011
Blog Post:
VBA - Displaying Extender Data for GL Transaction Lines on the GL Inquiry window
Anonymous
You might remember last month when we had a support case where the customer wanted to use Extender additional information against the General Ledger Journal Entry (GL_Transaction_Entry) distribution lines. We discovered that the Sequence Line field needed for the unique identifier for the line record...
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18 Jul 2010
Blog Post:
Changing Dictionary Context when using Passthrough Dexterity sanScript Part 2
Anonymous
This is the second in a series of posts which are are designed to help Dexterity developers as well as VBA and Visual Studio Developers to understand how to work with passthrough Dexterity sanScript. The main focus of this series is to understand how to change the Dictionary Context that the code executes...
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13 Jul 2010
Blog Post:
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Software Development Kits Released
Anonymous
The Software Development Kits for the various parts of the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 application have been released to CustomerSource and PartnerSource. The links are below: Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Application Software Development Kits Software Development Kit (SDK) for Microsoft Dynamics...
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14 Jun 2010
Blog Post:
VBA - Adding Extender Windows to GL Transaction Entry Lines
Anonymous
Last week I had an interesting support case that I thought I would share with you. The customer had created an Extender window to capture additional information for distribution lines on the General Ledger Journal Entry (GL_Transaction_Entry) window. The unique identifier for a distribution line is...
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8 Jun 2010
Blog Post:
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Technical Web Seminars
Anonymous
With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 this is THE place to get ready to learn about this release, innovative development tools, best practices and more. Help ensure your PEOPLE are your most powerful asset by gaining technical readiness for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010. Learn about the new...
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9 May 2010
Blog Post:
VBA - Calling a Report using Visual Basic for Applications
Anonymous
I was recently asked about a forum post of mine from a few years ago. It was about how to call a Dexterity report from Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). I checked the blog and could not find a post that showed the code in its simplest form. So here one is... This technique used the unsupported...
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13 Apr 2010
Blog Post:
Dexterity Training in Orlando (May 10th to 14th 2010)
Anonymous
Another opportunity to learn the foundations of Developing for Dynamics GP is now available. Microsoft Dynamics GP's core application user interface is developed using the Dexterity development system. Knowledge of Dexterity and therefore how Dynamics GP's internals work is fundamental to...
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1 Feb 2010
Blog Post:
What has been happening around the blogsphere?
Anonymous
Well, it seems that things have not slowed down much over the Holiday season and that many of the blog authors in the community have been writing lots of great articles. There are a few that caught my interest, so I will highlight them below: Steve Endow on the Dynamics GP Land blog has been...
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13 Jan 2010
Blog Post:
Automating or Customizing the Report Destination Window
Anonymous
I have seen this issue come up a number of times. Trying to automate processes which involve reports and wanting to automate the Report Destination window. Sometimes you can add the Report Destination to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and sometimes the system will not add the window to VBA. This...
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3 Nov 2009
Blog Post:
Hybrid - Setting a push button to Hyperspace
Anonymous
Trivia question for today: Given the following sequence of events: In Microsoft Dynamics GP, in a control field such as Customer Number, the user types in "AARON". The user then presses the associated lookup button. What happens? A. Focus moves to the button causing the field change...
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29 Oct 2009
Blog Post:
Hybrid Development and Continuum
Anonymous
In the past, I was known for my pioneering work with and promotion of Cross Dictionary Dexterity Development . More recently I have been talking up the benefits of Hybrid Development and Developing Outside of the Box . With all the tools available to the Microsoft Dynamics GP developer, and each tool...
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19 Oct 2009
Blog Post:
Dexterity Training in Orlando (Oct 5th to 9th 2009)
Anonymous
Now is your chance. If you have not attended a Dexterity Training class and are either new to Dexterity or want to get started with Dexterity, this is an opportunity that should not be missed. My good friend, Leslie Vail, will be training the 5 day Dexterity I (also known as Dexterity Fundamentals...
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27 Sep 2009
Blog Post:
Using Integration Manager with Analytical Accounting
Anonymous
When you use Integration Manager on a system with Analytical Accounting (AA) installed, integrations often fail because Analytical Accounting will open windows which are unhandled by Integration Manager. However, there are time when you still want to use Integration Manager to import transactions where...
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8 Sep 2009
Blog Post:
Where are Dynamics GP's Business Rules Defined and Enforced?
Anonymous
In a recent forum post , the question of where the business logic for Dynamics GP resides was raised. This is an excellent question which, sadly, does not have a simple answer. When Great Plains Dynamics was first developed for the Ctree and Btrieve ISAM (flat file) databases, there was little demand...
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2 Aug 2009
Blog Post:
Microsoft Dynamics GP and Illegal Characters Part 1
Anonymous
Over the years that I have worked with Microsoft Dynamics GP, there are been a few occasions where we have had issues with so called "illegal" characters. While the use of these characters should work everywhere, there are times when the characters are not handled correctly by the system...
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21 Jun 2009
Blog Post:
Why does VBA's Shift+F11 not always work?
Anonymous
There is an issue with the Shift+F11 keyboard shortcut which is used by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to Add Fields to Visual Basic. I was asked about it again recently and so decided to post the details on the blog. The issue is that Shift+F11 does not work on some systems. It usually works...
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16 Jun 2009
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