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Developing for Dynamics GP
All about the Dexterity OLE Container
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
1
Comments
Over the years, the question of how to interact with the Microsoft Dynamics GP OLE Notes from outside the application has been raised many times. I have responded to newsgroup posts with information that would hopefully lead the developers in the right...
Developing for Dynamics GP
How to retrieve Quantity On Hand amount using Web Services for Dynamics GP 10.0
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Chris Roehrich
1
Comments
This post is due to requests I have come across in the past and very recently in a support incident. The question raised was how to retrieve quantity amounts like Quantity On Hand for inventory items? This Visual Studio 2005 (C#) sample shows how to retrieve...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Resolve Customer Issues quicker with the Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
0
Comments
Alright, I admit it, this is one of my favourite subjects. I am currently working on the next build of the Support Debugging Tool which will add some new features and extend existing features... more details to come later. So, I am happy to see...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Checking eConnect Version Number Programmatically
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
2
Comments
To date the blog has not had a large amount of content relating to eConnect. So I am going to cheat and point you to a great article by Steve Endow on the Dynamics GP Land blog. Avoid versioning issues with eConnect by knowing how to check the version...
Developing for Dynamics GP
The "Do you want to save?" dialog appears when no changes are made
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
0
Comments
Recently I responded to a newsgroup post where the Sales Transaction Entry (SOP_Entry) window was popping up the "Do you want to save?" dialog when moving between records even though no changes had been made by the user. I have seen this issue many...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Information about using v10.0 Security Conversion Tool
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
3
Comments
From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Application Level Security Series . This is the final article in this series at this time. Microsoft Dynamics GP version 10.0 introduces a new pessimistic task and role based security model. This new model has a completely...
Developing for Dynamics GP
US Microsoft Dynamics GP Field Team Blog and DynamicAccounting.net
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
1
Comments
While I am looking around the Blogsphere at all the great content appearing on the various Microsoft Dynamics GP related blogs, I would like to highlight a couple of blogs which have a wealth of content or links to content relating to all things Microsoft...
Developing for Dynamics GP
What does SQL Maintenance really do?
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
0
Comments
Mariano Gomez has written a great article explaining what the SQL Maintenance (Microsoft Dynamics GP >> Maintenance >> SQL) window in Microsoft Dynamics GP actually does. This was in response to a newsgroup posting asking for more information...
Developing for Dynamics GP
How to resolve Dictionary not Loaded errors
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
2
Comments
From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Application Level Security Series . When attempting to open a window you might receive the following error message: Cannot access this form because the dictionary containing it is not loaded. There are two main...
Developing for Dynamics GP
How to resolve Security Privileges errors
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
5
Comments
From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Application Level Security Series . When access is denied by the application security system to a window, you will receive the following error message: You don't have security privileges to open this window. Contact...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Web Access to the Public Newsgroups has changed
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
0
Comments
UPDATE: The old links are working again, so you have the choice of links you can use. It seems that a technical issue took the links offline for a while. If you still get an error message, try refreshing the browser. As of today, it seems that...
Developing for Dynamics GP
How to resolve Security errors on Login
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
10
Comments
From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Application Level Security Series . When logging into Microsoft Dynamics GP or Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains, you might receive the following error: You don't have security privileges to open this...
Developing for Dynamics GP
How to identify the Security Tasks and Security Roles using the Support Debugging Tool
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
4
Comments
From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Application Level Security Series . In the previous post, How to identify the Security Tasks and Security Roles associated with a specific window or report we used the syCurrentResources (SY09400) table to help us identify...
Developing for Dynamics GP
How to identify the Security Tasks and Security Roles associated with a specific window or report
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
18
Comments
From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Application Level Security Series . Microsoft Dynamics GP version 10.0 introduces a new pessimistic task and role based security model. This model is defined in the following way: Access to all windows, tables,...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Integration Manager product suggestions, please vote!
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Beth Gardner
9
Comments
In order to get any new features added into our products, we need to have votes cast. This gives the Program Managers an idea if there really is need for certain features to be added. I have added the following items for Integration Manager. Please...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Microsoft Dynamics GP Application Level Security Series
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
15
Comments
For the next couple of weeks, I have decided to focus on Microsoft Dynamics GP application level security and methods for resolving security related issues. Where possible I will also show how using the Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Can I customise a 3rd party form with Dexterity?
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
14
Comments
Over the last few weeks I have been asked a number of times about methods of customising a 3rd party form. This purpose of this post is to clarify what can and cannot be achieved with Dexterity. Usually, the developer has created a combined dictionary...
Developing for Dynamics GP
How to transfer Security Tasks and Roles between Systems
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
16
Comments
From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Application Level Security Series . With the change from the optimistic user and class based security model in Microsoft Dynamics GP v9.0 (and v8.0) to the pessimistic role and task base security model in Microsoft Dynamics...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Are you using the Support Debugging Tool?
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
5
Comments
You might say that I am biased. As the developer of the Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP , I believe that every Microsoft Dynamics GP site (v8.0, v9.0 & v10.0) should have the tool installed. Even if you don't need it straight away...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Unhandled Script Exception: Attempt to use old()/diff() from a field that does not have focus.
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Dave Dusek
0
Comments
A common situation that can happen when coding with Dexterity is an error that you attempted to use the old()/diff() function from a field that doesn’t have focus. The exact error message is as follows: Unhandled Script Exception: Attempt to use old...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Running SQL commands against all GP Company Databases
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
David Musgrave
8
Comments
Last week, I posted the article below explaining how you can use the osql.exe command to run a script against all Microsoft Dynamics GP company databases. The method described in this post is best if you have a *.sql script file to execute against each...
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