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Automating or Customizing the Report Destination Window

I have seen this issue come up a number of times. Trying to automate processes which involve reports and wanting to automate the Report Destination window. Sometimes you can add the Report Destination to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and sometimes Read More...

Posted: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:00 AM by David Musgrave | 1 Comments

Filed under: Dexterity, Hybrid, VBA, Application, Customizations

Extender is coming, what now for the other customization tools

You may has seen that Microsoft Dynamics GP v10.00 Service Pack 4 will include a number of new features to the Extender product. Please see the information on blog posts on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog and US Microsoft Dynamics GP Field Team Read More...

Posted: Friday, April 24, 2009 9:00 AM by David Musgrave | 2 Comments

Filed under: Dexterity, Modifier, VBA, Visual Studio Tools, Extender, Application, Customizations

Handling Translation when Customizing with VBA

From the Translating Dexterity Applications Series . The final topic in the series is one that was added later after I was asked about how to handle translated applications when writing customizations. Most code would work fine as it is independent of Read More...

Posted: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:00 AM by David Musgrave | 2 Comments

Filed under: Modifier, VBA, Visual Studio Tools, Translation, Customizations, Language

Customizing Microsoft Dynamics GP? 5 Excuses You Will Want to Bury Once and For All!

Over the years that I have worked with Great Plains and Microsoft Dynamics GP, I have seen (and written) many customizations at customer sites. Some of those customizations are in the form of products to handle specific vertical markets or generic tools Read More...

Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:12 AM by David Musgrave | 0 Comments

Filed under: Blogsphere, Customizations

Before you Write a Customization, check Solution Finder

My friend Jeff Katz from the US Microsoft Dynamics GP Field Team has created a blog post about Partner and ISV Solutions for Microsoft Dynamics GP . He informs us about an exported version of the information available in the Solution Finder tool. It contains Read More...

Posted: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:00 AM by David Musgrave | 4 Comments

Filed under: Blogsphere, Customizations, Solutions

Customizations that you do not need to do

Having supported the various customization tools over the years, you run into common requests again and again. Something that often surprises me is that you get requests to 'customize' Dynamics GP to make it do something and as it turns out Dynamics GP Read More...

Posted: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:00 AM by Patrick Roth [MSFT] | 3 Comments

Filed under: Modifier, VBA, Customizations, NDM, Patrick Roth

VBA - Adding Fields to VBA stops working

While working with Microsoft Dynamics GP v9.00, I have seen a situation where adding fields to VBA does not work anymore. You can add windows and reports, but when adding a field they don't show up on the project. If you try to import a package file with Read More...

Posted: Monday, August 11, 2008 6:33 PM by David Musgrave | 2 Comments

Filed under: Modifier, VBA, Exception, Formats, Customizations

General Articles & Links

This page contains links to application related articles and sites: Security Knowledge Base (KB) Articles Frequently asked questions about Advanced Security and about Field Level Security in Microsoft Dynamics GP and in Microsoft Great Plains (KB 894705) Read More...

Posted: Friday, July 11, 2008 11:49 AM by David Musgrave | 5 Comments

Filed under: General, Named Printers, GST, BAS, Security, Advanced Security, Field Level Security, Role Based Security, Performance, Australia, APAC, Support, Articles, Passwords, Automated Solutions, Customizations, Solutions