Over at Microsoft Dynamics GP Support & Services blog, announcement of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 1 release has been posted.
The post also details everything about this SP and you would want to read it thoroughly to understand this release and its significance.
VAIDY
With Extender 2013, we have whole lot of surprises on how it got enhanced. One biggest enhancement/change to Extender is the way it treats Extender Detail Window (that is the name till previous version).
Previous version’s Detail Window definition looked as follows:
Not any more… There is no such option called Detail Window. From now on, every window is called, well simply, a Window.
So where is the option to setup whether it’s a multiple row entry (grid) or not? Here it is:
Just select option “Display scrolling grid” and you are good to go.
Clearly, eOne developers have done an immense cleanup work on Extender’s design. Overall, classification of Extender resources itself is now shrunken as follows:
Interesting changes; I have not gone thru’ all changes/enhancements yet. I will be posting more on all those interesting and critical changes.
So far, thumbs up to eOne Team, for their efforts.
VAIDY
Awesome news to me this afternoon…
eOne Solutions has released Extender 2013 for Dynamics GP 2013 today (late yesterday for some regions). Read their official blog post here: Extender Delivered.
Instructions on how to get the new version and license keys can be obtained from either your Partner or eOne directly. Shoot an email to them and they would be more than happy to guide you.
Let me continue with my customisations’ upgrade. Hectic times ahead.
VAIDY
eOne Solutions has got an update on release dates of their products for Dynamics GP 2013, including Extender Standard and Enterprise.
Since I am one among those who wait for Extender Standard for GP 2013, the release date has been planned before March 8th, 2013.
Highly important post; read it and plan your schedule of implementation (upgrade/fresh) accordingly.
VAIDY
Well, I could understand what you might think after reading the title of this post AND if you had read my previous post on GP 2013 Home Page Redesign.
I did admit that the redesign was kind of great for users. Ian Grieve had commented back with an important #FAIL factor of this redesign.
With that #FAIL factor, I just got one more to crib about. So lets list it:
I am sure it is going to be highly irritating for users who rely mostly on GP home page.
And with that above statement, I now reverse my opinion on my first post.
VAIDY
I had developed a small customisation module which would alert users while logging on to Dynamics GP with CapsLock key on. You can read more about it here: GP Login Form – Caps Lock Reminder Update.
That customisation was developed using Modifier with VBA. But with Dynamics GP 2013, much emphasis has been given to the new Web Client. Which means, all our VBA code logic won’t be supported by web client.
That said, I have now converted my code from VBA to VS Tools (using C#.Net as programming language). Those who are interested can download it FOR FREE from following link:
Instructions to use:
Your feedback is always welcome.
VAIDY
eOne Solutions has posted an update on Extender Transition process on their blog. It’s very important for both partners and customers to read it and get an idea about what’s been going on and what to expect in future.
I would like to highlight the points about Pricing Changes, which are highly critical to any customer. Read the post and get informed.
VAIDY
Has anyone noticed a subtle but highly logical change in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 menu structure?
Field Service Setup menu was grouped under Project till GP 2010. The path to access Service, Return, Contract setup menus was Microsoft Dynamics GP -> Tools -> Setup -> Project; which quite honestly did not make any sense. You are accessing Field Service setup, but from under the name Project…!?!?!?!?!?
Good folks at MSFT (and/or original developers of Field Service) might have sensed it, so now the setup menu items are logically structured under Field Service.
I am happy to say the least. Because, if you want to access Field Service setup windows from GP home page, it was not possible till GP 2013. Now that’s also been fixed.
Small change, but a BIG difference it has made. Thanks MSFT & Field Service Team, for this.
VAIDY
I am a bit late on this topic. We already have many posts (including Feature of the Day – Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP) on this written by several community members. So instead of repeating it again, I am just adding pointers here to those posts.
To just brief what it is: Document Attachment is a new feature in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013, which would enhance the way we currently deal with document attachments on a record. If you had sensed it right, yes it’s almost like OLE Notes, but much more than that.
This scores above OLE Notes, purely on grounds of three main factors:
More information about this (and how to use) could be read on below posts:
VAIDY
Awesome way to learn what’s new in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013.
Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP (official GP blog) has posted a list of all Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature videos.
I personally checked out some videos and it’s highly informative, but have not gone thru’ the entire collection though.
Go ahead and explore the videos. I am sure you will start planning to optimise some of your business processes after seeing these new features.
VAIDY
