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Question on Shared Reports Dictionary - Location

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Posted on by Bron 4

My client wants to store their shared reports.dic on a network location which is not automatically mapped/connected to when the user logs onto the network.

 In other words they have to manually pass their credentials after logging onto the network.

I stored the Frx - Sysdata folder in a network location where the user has to manually connect prior to launching Frx and this works. In other words, Frx realizes the user has permission/credentials to the sysdata folder and Frx launches correctly.

I stored the reports.dic in the same location. For GP, the user has connected to the location before launching GP - but GP doesn't seem to realize the connection exists and it fails to launch.

Does the reports.dic location need to be mapped and automatically connected or should it work like Frx?

Any guidance will be appreciated.....

Thanks in advance.

 

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  • David Musgrave MVP GPUG All Star Legend Moderator Profile Picture
    David Musgrave MVP ... 14,020 Most Valuable Professional on at
    Re: Question on Shared Reports Dictionary - Location

    Make sure you (and the customer) have a read of my blog post on not using shared locations

    http://blogs.msdn.com/developingfordynamicsgp/archive/2008/08/20/automating-distribution-of-customisations-part-1.aspx

    David Musgrave [MSFT]
    Escalation Engineer - Microsoft Dynamics GP
    Microsoft Dynamics Support - Asia Pacific

    Microsoft Dynamics (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions)
    http://www.microsoft.com/Dynamics

    mailto:David dot Musgrave at microsoft dot com
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    Any views contained within are my personal views and not necessarily Microsoft policy.
    This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. 

     

  • Richard Whaley Profile Picture
    Richard Whaley 25,195 on at
    Re: Question on Shared Reports Dictionary - Location

    First of all, it must be automatically connected/mapped at login.  Otherwise, the users will get errors.  Control access to specific critical reports via security, not error messages.

  • L Vail Profile Picture
    L Vail 65,271 on at
    Re: Question on Shared Reports Dictionary - Location

    Are you using a UNC path in the Dynamics.set file or are you trying to use a mapped drive? What, if any, error message are you receiving when the user attempts to log in?

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