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11-Jul-2008: Blog Created by David Musgrave.
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Developing for Dynamics GP
How to get large amounts of text to look good on a report
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
3
Comments
I have seen a number of occasions where a consultant has been asked to add a paragraph of text to a graphic report and has found it almost impossible to get the text to display nicely in both screen and printer outputs. For example: a Purchasing Terms...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Customise the Microsoft Dynamics GP Splash Screen
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
9
Comments
Even though support for a splash screen was added to Dexterity v3.00, Great Plains Dynamics v5.50 was the first version to include a splash.bmp file and Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains v8.00 was the last version to include a splash.bmp file...
Developing for Dynamics GP
The Blog Explosion
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
7
Comments
Since I decided to create a blog a couple of months ago and join the blogsphere, I have found out about a number of other blogs relating to Microsoft Dynamics GP. There are a number of blogs run by Microsoft employees and teams, such as this one. There...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Hybrid - Purchasing Terms & Conditions Example
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
2
Comments
This example shows how you can call a Dexterity report from Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). The report can be either a built in report or a custom report. If a built in report is used security will define whether the original, modified, alternate...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Hybrid - Cheque Amount in Words Example
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
12
Comments
One of the Report Writer functions added to v7.00 onwards (see Using the built-in Report Writer Functions ) was the RW_ConvertToWordsAndNumbers() function to convert a currency amount into words. After the code was added, it was realised that Report Writer...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Menus for Visual Studio Tools - The wait is over
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
26
Comments
Some brilliant news for Microsoft Visual Studio developers who use Visual Studio Tools to integrate with Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0. Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 has now been released on PartnerSource and CustomerSource...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Why do currency and quantity numbers greater than 999 fail to show?
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
2
Comments
There are times when Microsoft Dynamics GP fails to display currency and quantity numbers greater than 999 after they have been saved. Examples of this behaviour include: Displaying a previously saved transaction or transaction line and the amounts...
Developing for Dynamics GP
VBA - Default Lookup Sort Order Example
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
2
Comments
The following VBA example shows how you can set a lookup window to open with a default sort order. The reason that this is normally difficult is that the usual methods that people use to set defaults with VBA do not work on lookup windows. Normally...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Hybrid - Adding Record Notes to a window Example
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
2
Comments
I spent this morning discussing a very interesting customisation with my good friend Mariano Gomez . We had both seen a newsgroup posting asking if it was possible to add access to the Item Master's record note from the Item Inquiry window using VBA....
Developing for Dynamics GP
Hybrid - Running a macro to automatically close GP Example
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
7
Comments
The following VBA example shows how a macro file can be started from VBA. This particular example will close Microsoft Dynamics GP when the Check Links window closes. As macros wait for background processes to complete, the macro will not start until...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Modifier - Adding a field to a scrolling window using ADO Example
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
10
Comments
The following VBA example adds the Sales Order Processing User Defined 3 field onto the Receivables Transaction Inquiry window. When the window is opened the code will obtain the current user's credentials and open an ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) connection...
Developing for Dynamics GP
VBA - Welcome to Dynamics Example
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
7
Comments
For those of you who have been involved with the Great Plains product for a while, you will remember the " Welcome to Dynamics " wave that played when the application was launched. Well, if you want that functionality again, you can use VBA to add it...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Support Debugging Tool - The wait is over
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
25
Comments
Fantastic news for the all the partner consultants and developers in the Dynamics GP community. The Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP has now been released on PartnerSource for versions 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0. Just over two years ago I...
Developing for Dynamics GP
How to use core Formats in a 3rd party report dictionary
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
2
Comments
This posting discusses how to use Customization Maintenance packages to enable Microsoft Dynamics GP core formats for use in the Report Writer with a 3rd party report dictionary. When using the Microsoft Dynamics GP Report Writer to modify reports...
Developing for Dynamics GP
How to change the font used for Text Reports
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
3
Comments
When printing Text Reports for Microsoft Dynamics GP to a laser printer they are usually printed using the built in Courier printer font. The following article describes how the font typeface and size can be controlled by settings in the DEX.INI defaults...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Using the built-in Report Writer Functions
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
28
Comments
During my time in the partner channel, I worked with a number of consultants who had a number of problems customising reports with Report Writer. One of the problems was an inability to access desired data because a valid table relationship could not...
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