Over at Dynamics GP Support and Services Blog, Andrea Melroe describes on possibility of changing the account format of COA, rules involved, limitations and more important factors.
Excellent post and I am sure many GP customers and partners can learn a thing or two from this all important post.
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
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
It’s a bit hard to take it, but reality being the OLE Notes attachment feature won’t work on GP 2013 Web Client for current technical reasons.
Read his post here: OLE Notes and Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client
That brings to us a new feature called Document Attachment in Dynamics GP 2013. This can be used instead of OLE Notes. It looks just perfect for me to start using it instead of OLE. Not just because of the incompatibility with web client, but also due to it’s robust features.
More can be read in my next post and also Mariano’s.
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
You can now inactivate a user in Dynamics GP 2013 temporarily. This is a feature addition to User Management in GP.
There is a new field called *Status* which is a Dropdown List. Contains 3 statuses namely, Active, Inactive & Lesson User.
When a user status is set to Inactive, that user cannot log on to GP but will retain his/her access when activated again. We can still manage access information of an inactive user. Upon his/her next login, the modified access information will get into effect.
When a user status is set to Lesson User, that user can access ONLY Fabrikam Inc. (sample company).
Cool, isn’t it…!!!
VAIDY
Nicely written post by Andrea Melroe on Microsoft Dynamics GP Support and Services blog.
If anyone has got any doubt about how to change the Chart of Accounts (COA) format and what are the things to understand on this process, read this post: Is it possible to change the account format for the chart of accounts in GP?
It’s highly elaborative and easy to understand.
VAIDY
Microsoft seems to be in a mood to give back all modules to its original developers. First it was Extender, then it was Audit Trails, Electronic Signatures, Risk Management Suite; now it’s the turn of Collections Management.
Errol Schoenfish, on Microsoft Dynamics GP official blog, announces that Collection Management for Microsoft Dynamics GP transits to Professional Advantage; it’s original developers.
Any licensing and module procurement would be affected only from June 1st, 2013. We have both CustomerSource and PartnerSource links to learn more about this transition.
Interesting…
VAIDY
This issue was a bit tricky but not THAT tricky, though.
One of the users reported to me that he was not able to run depreciation because when he opened the Depreciation Process Information window (Microsoft Dynamics GP -> Tools -> Routines -> Fixed Assets -> Depreciate), the Depreciate button was disabled. Below was the screenshot that he sent to me (disabled button is highlighted in RED box):
Reason: After quite a bit of analysis (Dex Script Log & SQL Profiling using SDT), I found that there is a table where FA module temporarily records the depreciation activity initiated by any user and will retain that record the process is complete.
User confirmed to me that last time when he ran the depreciation process, it got stuck at the time of printing the results.
Solution:
The table which records the activity is FA40203 (display name: Book Setup for Depreciation). The table contains three fields: User ID, FA Book Index & FA Book ID.
I took a backup of this table (a simple T-SQL SELECT * INTO…) and removed that stranded activity record for that user.
User confirmed that he could then start depreciation process.
Its always good to start a day with some brainy troubleshooting. But not certainly good for users to start with an issue, though.
VAIDY
This is, to some extent, bad news for me at least. I was planning for an early upgrade to GP 2013 for my GP production environment. As 40% of my customisation depend on Extender, it feels so bad that I cannot get Extender for GP 2013 till Early to Mid February 2013. This news has been confirmed by eOne Solutions on their official blog.
Original post here: Delivery Date.
I am disappointed to say the least. But considering the issues that eOne developers are going thru’, especially due to a very late announcement from Microsoft to detach Extender from their OEM arrangements, I empathise with them on their most gruelling time to get things streamlined and meet customers’ expectations.
I shall await their official announcement on Extender’s availability for GP 2013.
VAIDY
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