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This blog post is about a Dexterity support incident that I recently had that ended up to be more difficult than I originally thought. This one should have been easy, when a chunk doesn't merge, it's usually always easy. Except this case. The background
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Following on from last week's post on OLE Attachments and Record Notes , I can now get to the reason for the interest in notes and OLE attachments. The partner was trying to copy master records for Vendors from one company to a new company. They wanted
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While working on a recent support case, I was asked again about how Notes work and in particular the OLE attachments. In the previous post, Understanding Notes and the Note Index field , we discussed where the next Note Index value comes from. In this
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I have been asked a few times recently about installing the Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP on a live system. This post covers some of the Frequently Asked Questions about installing the tool. Q: What is the Support Debugging Tool? A:
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Aren't secrets fun? And while having a secret is fun in and of itself, it is also fun to share them from time to time (and allowed to share them). The secret today is an undocumented feature that I believe was added to 10.0 SP2. As an undocumented feature,
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One question that I've been asked a few times in the past has been - "Can I read/write to other sections of the Dex.ini other than the [General] section with Dexterity?". Here I presume the questioner would like to have their own section of the dex.ini
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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
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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,
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Since the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP v10.0 I have seen this question asked many times over on the various newsgroups I monitor (see the Newsgroups Links on the left hand panel of the blog). The quick answer is.... it has moved into the Data subfolder.
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This is an updated version of an article I wrote a while back for the Microsoft Dynamics GP community website. The links to the original article, as well as the associated Knowledge Base (KB) article are provided at the bottom of this post. The idea was
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Why doesn't the password I use for Microsoft Dynamics GP work for me to access the data in SQL from <insert application name here>? Why does my password sometimes fail to work from one workstation when it works from another? Why does the password
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When logging into the Fabrikam sample company with Microsoft Dynamics GP, the current user date will be set to April 12, 2017 and you will be presented with a dialog with the following message: You have chosen to use the sample company, which provides
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Microsoft Dynamics GP remembers the last user to use the application and defaults the User ID into the login window next time the application is loaded. This is useful when only a single user uses the specific workstation install. In a Terminal Server
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