Debugging Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Word Templates

In my previous article I outlined a few steps to add a page of terms and conditions to an invoice form. However, these changes did not come without their challenges. When I initially started out working on this customized template, my "natural instinct" was to add a new section to the Word template and unlink the header and footer from the previous section, then add the text. To complicate matters a bit more, I had added this new template as a modified version of a modified report - SOP Blank Invoice Form Template (Modified). Typically this is what would be encountered in a GP environment anyways as most standard GP invoice forms were customized even before the Word Templates functionality even existed in GP.

Somehow, these changes managed to crash and display a message in the Template Processing Exceptions(TPE) window and I ended up with this error:



In Rob's own words, "FYI, dex.ini TPELogging=TRUE is used to gather where an exception has occurred. It points the combine process where I will go in and debug the TPE.".

The log is created in the %temp% directory where the actual Word document is rendered and its content looks something like this:


TPE was indicating that there was an issue with an exception not being handled when the XML data from Report Writer was being combined with the actual Word template.

This allowed Rob and his team to start tracking down the issue with my template from the source code and provide me with an alternate route to solve my problem.

As a final note, it seems there is an issue as well with TPE not clearing some process after choosing to remove the exception from the Report Processing Status window. In turn, this prevents shutting down GP via the Exit option, having to use the Windows Task Manager to force the termination of the DYNAMICS.EXE process. Rob's team is on this too.

Until next post!

MG.-
Mariano Gomez, MVP
Maximum Global Business, LLC
http://www.maximumglobalbusiness.com/