Developing for Dynamics GP

by David Musgrave (Perth, WA, Australia) and the Microsoft Dynamics GP Developer Support Team (Fargo, ND, USA)

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  • Blog Post: Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2 64-bit Hyper-V (V2) includes Support Debugging Tool

    Just over a week ago Jay Manley from the Inside Dynamics GP blog announced the release of the Dynamics GP 2010 R2 Hyper-V Demo Toolkit - V2 !!! . Please have a read of his post to get all the details of the changes and improvements made. There has been a big effort to make the Demo Toolkit's Hyper...
  • Blog Post: Drilling back to Project Accounting Inventory Transfer Inquiry Zoom

    A few days ago, a user posted a question on the Dynamics GP forums. What he ran across was when drilling back to the source document from the (GL) Transaction Entry Zoom window for a Project Accounting Inventory Transfer document, the document didn't display correctly. If the journal entry is in the...
  • Blog Post: Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2012 Houston Sessions

    It is now February and Converegence 2012 Houston is happening next month (March 18-21). If you are not registered to attend yet ..... why not? Sign up now click on the image above or the link below Mariano Gomez ( The Dynamics GP Blogster ) and I will be back to present one session at the GPUG Day...
  • Blog Post: Quick Tip: Solving Dexterity Trigger Clashes

    In a recent support case, I had the rare situation where Dexterity Triggers clashed. Dexterity allows third party developers to create triggers against various events and scripts in a Dexterity application (like Microsoft Dynamics GP). There are times where more than one third party product registers...
  • Blog Post: How to configure SQL Profile Tracing using the Support Debugging Tool

    Following the release of Build 16 of the Support Debugging Tool , I want to take you through how to configure the SQL Profile Tracing functionality so you can gain the benefits of this awesome feature. The Support Debugging Tool has always been able to capture a DEXSQL.LOG of the communication between...
  • Blog Post: Support Debugging Tool Build 16 released

    A week into the New Year and no posts.... what's happening? Read on to understand where all my spare time has been going.... After over four months of development, testing and documentation, I am thrilled to announce that build 16 of the Support Debugging Tool is now available for download from PartnerSource...
  • Blog Post: From the Blogsphere: Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2 64-bit Hyper-V, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Performance White Paper and Dynamics GP Blogster YouTube Channel

    This is just a quick post to update you with some of the recent happenings around the blogsphere. On the Inside Dynamics GP Blog , Jay Manley (with help from Kelly Youells, Lyle Curry, Jason Siever, Ryan Sandness, Daniel Sly, Jon Studsrud, and John Dooley) has completed the first-ever 64-bit Hyper...
  • Blog Post: Support Debugging Tool at Decisions Fall 2011 and more

    The Decisions Fall 2011 virtual conference is almost here. The Microsoft Dynamics GP day is Tuesday, 6 th December 2011 (US Time). There are a dozen great sessions for you from the Microsoft Dynamics GP MVPs and other community members. Have a look at the link below for the list of GP sessions: ...
  • Blog Post: Quick Tip: Using SQL to return the number of records in a Table

    Now I am sure there are people out there that will be thinking that this is a silly topic for a blog article. Surely everyone knows how to get the number of records from a SQL table using the COUNT(*) function? Well, you would be correct that most people do know the COUNT(*) method as shown below...
  • Blog Post: The Importance of Selecting the Correct Extender Key Fields

    I have had a couple of recent cases which highlighted the importance of selecting the correct Key fields when creating Extender objects. Both of the cases involved adding additional user defined fields to an existing Microsoft Dynamics GP window using an Extender Window Object. In both cases, the incorrect...
  • Blog Post: Support Debugging Tool session at Decisions Fall 2011

    My good friend and Convergence co-presenter, Mariano Gomez , will be presenting a 30 minute session on the Support Debugging Tool at the Decisions Fall (Autumn?) 2011 Virtual Conference. The Microsoft Dynamics GP day will be held on the 6th December 2011. Below is a link to the site and the summary...
  • Blog Post: Support Debugging Tool session at GPUG Summit 2011

    My MVP friends, Mariano Gomez & Mark Polino , have agreed to help me out by being my physical representatives at the upcoming GPUG Summit 2011 . As I am unable to get there in person, they will be there to answer any questions you might have while I will only be there in a virtual sense. For information...
  • Blog Post: Creating a Support Debugging Tool Non-Logging Trigger to run after login

    This little hint might be handy if you are trying to use the Support Debugging Tool to create a non-logging trigger to run some code after a user logs in. The Support Debugging Tool uses a trigger after the Add_Successful_Login_Record global procedure (see more information below) to start its initialization...
  • Blog Post: How to display more than 80 characters of an Extender Long String field in reports using the Support Debugging Tool

    Here is another support case that was resolved simply and quickly using the Support Debugging Tool . The customer was using Extender to add an additional comment to the inventory stock transfer transaction. They created an Extender ID "ST_COMMENTS" and used the Long String field type in Extender which...
  • Blog Post: Shortened URL for Blog and Support Debugging Tool Portal

    I recently found out about a Microsoft URL shortening service and so I created a couple of shortened URLs to make it easier for you to get access to the Developing for Dynamics GP blog and the Support Debugging Tool Portal page. Developing for Dynamics GP: http://aka.ms/Dev4DynGP Support Debugging...
  • Blog Post: 21 Reasons why every workstation should have the Support Debugging Tool installed

    As I perform my role in the Asia Pacific Microsoft Dynamics GP support team I am finding that more and more sites already have the Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP installed. This makes my job much easier as there are many features of the tool that help a support engineer diagnose and...
  • Blog Post: The Creation of the Support Debugging Tool

    If you have seen me present on the Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP , you know that I usually give a brief overview of why the tool was created. After a chat with my co-presenter, Mariano Gomez, The Dynamics GP Blogster , I decided that it would be worth explaining a bit more about the...
  • Blog Post: Using the Support Debugging Tool with Real Life Examples

    You know that I love the Support Debugging Tool and think that it is a wonderful tool to help administer and support your Microsoft Dynamics GP systems. Well, as the creator of the tool, I will admit that I am just a little biased. But, it is really cool and exciting for me when I see other people...
  • Blog Post: Support Debugging Tool Build 15 update released

    As mentioned in the post, Support Debugging Tool Build 15 released , the Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP build 15 was released at the end of June with a build labelled as Last Modified: 28-Jun-2011. This post is to announce that an updated Build 15 labelled as Last Modified: 22-Jul...
  • Blog Post: Troubleshooting issues caused by customizations

    I had been planning to write this post after I was able to resolve a recent support case really quickly using the Support Debugging Tool . Then Christina wrote her post on Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks and it makes this post even more relevant. The case I was working on was an error dialog generated...
  • Blog Post: Support Debugging Tool Build 15 released

    Those of you who attended Microsoft Convergence 2011 Atlanta will know about the promised Build 15 of the Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP . Well it is finally here with over 80 changes to the code. It includes lots of new functionality as well as many fixes and improvements. This build...
  • Blog Post: Named Printers application default printer selections not "sticking"

    In the past, I have had some cases where users have reported that the Microsoft Dynamics GP application default printer as set by Named Printers keeps getting changed back to the Windows Default printer. The cause of this issue was never really identified.... until now. A current case with a similar...
  • Blog Post: Australian Business Register update breaks ABN Lookup Feature

    Yesterday, on Thursday 16 th June, the Australian Business Register (ABR) updated their website which meant the link that Microsoft Dynamics GP has been using to lookup Australian Business Numbers (ABN) no longer works. This morning, I had two support cases on this issue raised within about 30 minutes...
  • Blog Post: Using the Script Debugger in Runtime Mode

    Yesterday, I handled a support case that asked about using the Dexterity Script Debugger at runtime and whether there was any performance issues having the Debug menu enabled when it was not being used to perform any logging. What we are talking about is adding the ScriptDebugger=TRUE setting into...
  • Blog Post: How to add Item Category Long Descriptions to reports using the Support Debugging Tool

    I am currently working on a support case where the customer is making use of the six user defined categories for items. That in itself is nothing remarkable or worth blogging about. However, they are using Long Description field on the Item Category Setup window and wished to include the data from this...
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