Is there a quick way to copy our Modified SOP Blank Invoice Form to the SOP Blank History Invoice Form

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We are on Dynamics GP 2018 18.4.1384 (2021)

Our current Modified SOP Blank History Invoice Form is just a copy of the out of the box Report Writer Form, so when we re-print it, it just looks strange.

Is there a quick way to copy our Modified SOP Blank Invoice Form so that the SOP Blank History Invoice Form is the same as the Modified SOP Blank Invoice Form - Except I would put "HISTORIC" in the two headers somewhere.

Looking for a short cut without doing all the work, can we simply deleting the current "Modified SOP Blank History Invoice Form", and then copy the "Modified SOP Blank Invoice Form"?

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Richard Wheeler 75,852 Moderator on at

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Yes there is but it has been a long time I have done this. It involves creating a package file of the Modified SOP Blank Invoice Form then opening the package file using NotePad.exe and modifying various headers. I believe it may be as simple as doing a global replace of the word WORK to HIST. After doing this you can insert the text 'HISTORICAL'

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Hi

Please see my article on the topic from 2013, which also has warnings about Word Templates and not breaking the report after copying it.

winthropdc.wordpress.com/.../

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David

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Clay T 170 on at

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David & Richard, Thank You Both

David, the instructions on the Blog was Fantastic!! I don't have a clue what I am doing most of the time, but I cautiously used your instructions, and it seems to have worked perfectly, I put in ** HISTORICAL ** and it prints nice now.

Thank You both for taking the time to respond.

Sincerely

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Ian Davies Wynnstay 22 on at

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In theory you could by exporting/editing the package and changing the component name. This works fine for copying blank to short to long etc.

you'd also need to substitute any field references from SOP_HDR_WORK to SOP_HDR_HIST etc etc etc which may end up being more work than starting from scratch.

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Bill Campbell 12 on at

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Ian, you are correct, the fields and the tables will be different. I would suggest reviewing David Musgrave's posting above in which he provided a detailed process to make this work. He also explains the pitfalls and traps of making this change.

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Richard Wheeler 75,852 Moderator on at

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David's article is by far the most complete. Your chances of success get even higher if no Word templates are involved.

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