how to deploy the modified custom report in production GP, import and export will work for this report ??

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Hi ,

i have modified one report in dev that is not mainprodcut report, scc state is NEW.

how can i deploy my modified custom report in production gp, can we do this with export and importing the report to production GP., can you please guide me on deployment.. need this urgent.

thanks in advance.

Rudra.

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David Musgrave MVP ... 13,945 Most Valuable Professional on at

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RE: how to deploy the modified custom report in production GP, import and export will work for this report ??

Hi

You will need to get everyone out of the system. If the reports dictionary is still locked, you will need to restart the servers.

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David
Steve Bauman 10 on at

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RE: how to deploy the modified custom report in production GP, import and export will work for this report ??

I had to reply here because I was still having this issue event when all users were logged out of Dynamics GP.

Our setup: We have our REPORTS.DIC file inside of a shared folder that all of our GP Clients use that is located on the same server that our Dynamics SQL server resides on. This mapping reference is setup via the DYNAMICS.SET text file (ex. //server/gpshare/REPORTS.DIC).

The problem appears to be that when you open GP to import the modified reports, it opens the REPORTS.DIC shared file as a session (you can view this by launching "Computer Management" on the server that hosts the REPORTS.DIC file and then opening up System Tools > Shared Folders > Open Files), so even when everyone is logged out, I still had the error "Unable to open customizations dictionary", as it was technically open by myself.

What I had to do is, make a copy of the REPORTS.DIC file from the share and place it on the local computer, modify my GP client DYNAMICS.SET file to point to this local REPORTS.DIC file instead of the one on the GP shared folder, log into GP, import my modified reports, close GP, and then copy + paste (overwrite) the shared REPORTS.DIC file.

Running the GP client as administrator did not help this - it appears the issue is with hosting the file on a share (unsure why the file cannot be modified in GP while it resides in a share).

Hope this helps someone in the future!
L Vail 65,271 on at

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RE: how to deploy the modified custom report in production GP, import and export will work for this report ??

Yes,

Backing up the reports dictionary means to copy the reports dictionary.

Leslie
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RE: how to deploy the modified custom report in production GP, import and export will work for this report ??

Thank you moorthy,

can you share anything on the deployment and dictionaries??

Thanks

Rudra/-
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RE: how to deploy the modified custom report in production GP, import and export will work for this report ??

Thanks you Richard,

shall i take the dictionary backup, you are saying the same right?

or reports back up, if yes how should i take reports back up?

Rudra/-
Richard Wheeler 75,730 on at

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RE: how to deploy the modified custom report in production GP, import and export will work for this report ??

When it comes to deploying modified reports here is what I have always done:

1) Have one GP workstation as a development unit

2) Modify and test reports on this work station. Never work on reports in a production environment with a shared reports dictionary as file corruption may occur

3) Export out to a package file just the report(s) you have modified.

4) At the end of the day when no one is in GP, login into GP from a workstation that uses the shared reports dictionary. Import these packages into the reports dictionary. I would also make a backup before you do the import.

5) Make sure you grant security rights to use the modified version of the report(s)
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soma 24,406 on at

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RE: how to deploy the modified custom report in production GP, import and export will work for this report ??

Yes. Go to Customization Maintenance window (Tools-->Customize-->Customization Maintenance. Then select the reports what are all you want to deploy in live and click export to save the file as package. Then go to production GP and import the same from the Customization Window.

Hope this helps!!!