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Posted on by Donald Leary 580

I'm trying to monitor a particular event in Dynamics GP, when customer SO's have been created. I have looked into GP extension methods (documentation is great on MSDN, but nothing is working) and also into message queuing via eConnect. I found little to no documentation online for this purpose. I've been doing an extensive amount of research but yielding no results.... any pro with advice? Here is a link to my extension assembly question:

community.dynamics.com/.../103588.aspx

I'm open to any option to obtain this info...

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  • Richard Wheeler Profile Picture
    Richard Wheeler 75,788 Moderator on at
    RE: Monitor GP Events externally

    You are welcome. We have been reselling Dynamics GP since version 1 and being an old time programmer I try employ the KISS principle whenever possible. Good luck with your project.

  • Donald Leary Profile Picture
    Donald Leary 580 on at
    RE: Monitor GP Events externally

    After verifying my emails it seems as though i had the companies backwards... My mistake, but EI was the lesser expensive of the 2. Thanks for that tip Richard, i've just started with GP and i could use all the professional help i can get!

    Thanks

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    Richard Wheeler 75,788 Moderator on at
    RE: Monitor GP Events externally

    Donald, as an example of what I use the complete suite of EI Dynamics for is a feature(bug) in GP. It has to do the GL IV account and the IV HITB balance. I have found that edit PO's can easily get those two out of balance so I start with an email alert to let me know they are out of balance. I then go off an write these occurrences off to a log file for further processing. A final step involves flipping a flag to tell me the correction has been made. So EI Dynamics not only sends an alert based on some SQL script but then also can evoke other processes to do pretty much anything I want it to do. Things can also be scheduled or run ad-hoc. We have found it to be extremely useful and fairly intuitive.

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    Donald Leary 580 on at
    RE: Monitor GP Events externally

    Hi Robert,

    The price i mentioned was a direct quote from an EI Dynamics rep yesterday. Vinyardsoft's product went a little further than the email alerts by extending it to shell  processes and a few other tricks. I wouldn't doubt that they're both great products, being a developer myself i was looking for more documentation than what MSDN had. I knew it could be done in either the eConnect API or the GP SDK... it's good to know a few companies that can manage basically the entire GP infrastructure. GP is new to me and my company has just really begun development with it. We will most likely be in contact sooner or later for business ;)

    Thank you

  • Robert V Profile Picture
    Robert V 5 on at
    RE: Monitor GP Events externally

    I am with Ei Dynamics.  Not sure where you did your research or received your information from but to just do email alerts Ei Dynamics is $900.  If you need to do report automation and EDI then yes our software is $4,900 which I believe is pretty close to Vinyard's pricing for the same functionality but we price a little differently so there are some various nuances where you could argue one is cheaper than the other depending on how you spin it.

    Glad you we're able to find a solution to your problem without any additional software.

  • Richard Whaley Profile Picture
    Richard Whaley 25,195 on at
    RE: Monitor GP Events externally

    Just for reference for the future, VineyardSoft created the industry!

  • Donald Leary Profile Picture
    Donald Leary 580 on at
    RE: Monitor GP Events externally

    I did some research on both companies (EI Dynamics and Vinyardsoft). Both look like they would do the job (spoke with some reps from the companies), but EI Dynamics comes with an extremely heavy price (and maintenance fees), where Vinyardsoft seams to be a bit more reasonable (EI Dynamics product almost $4,000, Vinyardsoft's product was about $1,000).

    My solution:

    I ended up figuring out how to get eConnect's Transaction Requester working properly with MSMQ. I can now get live PO transactions straight from the message queue with a detailed list about the transaction. This for now seams like the more "logical" choice for my company in regards to cost and maintenance.

    Thank you both for your help.

  • Donald Leary Profile Picture
    Donald Leary 580 on at
    RE: Monitor GP Events externally

    I'll look into that now Richard, thank you.

  • Richard Whaley Profile Picture
    Richard Whaley 25,195 on at
    RE: Monitor GP Events externally

    Then lookup Vinyardsoft.com on the web, call them, and tell them what you need to do.  Their product (knowledge sync) is referred to as Business Alerts on Steroids.  The were at Convergence this year and I have known them and used there product for 12 years.  Tell them I sent you.  

  • Donald Leary Profile Picture
    Donald Leary 580 on at
    RE: Monitor GP Events externally

    Sorry, SO not PO

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