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
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
Another important and notable change that we have in GP 2013 is the module homepage being amazingly redesigned, much to users’ delight.
As compared to previous versions of GP (from 9), what you will see here is the complete menu without any collapse/expand functionality, but with a scrolling option within that small rectangle frame; which means you don’t have to scroll to the bottom of GP itself, but just scroll down within that frame, so you don’t have to scroll up/down to access other frames.
If you are trying to open Receivables Batches, I just have to scroll down on Transactions frame. When I am done, I won’t have to scroll up/down again to reach out to open Receivables Statements.
Cool, isn’t it? If you are heavy user of modules homepage for your day-to-day tasks, this is going to increase your productivity most certainly.
VAIDY
The moment you cross Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Login window and reach Company Selection window, you would realise that it is now uncluttered with Password field being removed.
Looks pretty and clean to me. How about you all?
VAIDY
UPDATE: Author of this book, Leslie Vail, has got a post on her blog (Dynamics Confessor Blogspot). Link now added here to her own post: Published at last! Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications.
I had the privilege to be a part of the technical reviewing of this amazingly informative book: Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications.
This book is penned by one of the most experienced GP personality and multiple times MVP, Leslie Vail. Packt Publishing has published this book.
I strongly recommend this book to all GP developers/consultants who would like to know how to develop anything with regards to Dynamics GP; be it a new feature addition, a feature modification or just a cosmetic enhancement.
Thanks Leslie Vail for this wonderfully written book with every single important concept being covered.
VAIDY
The first feature published on this series is the Inventory Transaction Reason Codes. You have a nicely made small PPT presentation attached which explains this new feature.
My Opinion:
It’s certainly a welcome feature after all, though it’s not a game changer altogether.
I used to instruct my clients to enter a note on every IV adjustment passed, be it a positive adjustment or a negative one. And most of them (99% to be precise) have not followed it. They simply do not want to reason those adjustments, however genuine it might be. Later when auditing happens, they would run around to figure out why exactly they posted those entries.
With this, at least, we have an option to classify each adjustment meaningfully and take a stock of such entries. Auditors would also be happy to know about it.
Question(s): Is this Reason Code a MANDATORY for each adjustment? If not, then the purpose is lost.
Let’s wait and see.
VAIDY
It’s this time, everyone of us (GP Community) would be eagerly waiting for. Like every Apple/Microsoft product announcement event. For me, this is much more exciting; way more exciting than anything else.
Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog has started the much awaited series: Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day.
Enjoy reading the series (and be educated on upcoming version & it’s new features).
VAIDY
Mark highlights the Smartlist Left Pane curse (what else do you say if you see half of your screen is occupied by the Smartlist Favorites tree view and only half being allotted for results?) and a suggestion that was made by Sivakumar V.
The Connect suggestion post can be seen here: GP Smartlist Window Splitter to be made resizable.
But when I see this suggestion, it says Resolved:
So that means, is it going to be available on next release? Or on GP2013?
Nevertheless, visit the portal and vote for it.
VAIDY
Rose Business Solutions, Inc. blogs about a really useful tip for Finance users on how to duplicate a posted journal entry.
It’s very much time saving if your journal entry is big enough.
VAIDY
With some examples, Rushi Patel explains us about how the Web Client ribbon is customized for our real time needs.
Read it here at Developing For Dynamics GP blog post: Dynamics GP Developer Insights – Web Client Window Ribbon Part 2.
I am more excited to get my hands on GP 2013 development after reading such posts. It’s going to be delightful.
VAIDY
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