When upgrading to GP2016 RTM, it looks like upgrade process would skip creating new security roles and tasks, to ensure that the old ones are not messed up.
According to Dynamics GP Support & Services blog, this is intentional and we have been provided with an INSERT script that would create the new GP2016 roles and tasks. It’s more like on-demand insert.
A fresh GP2016 installation would hence be different from an upgrade.
VAIDY
Excellent post on Dynamics GP Support & Services blog that walks us through GP Word Templates.
This was the last post in the series named Microsoft Dynamics GP On Demand Learning Series.
Sincere thanks to GP Support Team, for posting these articles. Highly informative.
VAIDY
Over at Dynamics GP Support & Services blog, couple of posts discussing about following are available:
Both posts discuss in detail about how to upgrade modified dictionary and how to troubleshoot upgrade issues. In particular, the upgrade troubleshooting post is crucial for obvious reasons.
Just about 10 days to get my hands on Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016. It’s gonna be fun.
VAIDY
All GP customers, ISVs, VARs and consultants should bear in mind that GP 2010 mainstream support ends on October 13, 2015.
Extended support runs till 2020, however it is strongly advised to upgrade your GP to most recent version (or a higher version on which your other modules/add-ons are compatible with).
You may want to bookmark this complete support schedule on Microsoft’s portal: Microsoft Support Lifecycle – Dynamics GP.
VAIDY
I received a strange support request today from one of my users that PO number is not shown fully on Purchase Invoice Inquiry Zoom window. Just tried to inquire some purchase invoices myself and I got what she mentioned:
If you see above highlighted PO number, it’s not shown fully. This will be the case only if you use GP’s standard PO number sequence or used entire PO length of 17 characters.
When I checked it on Modifier, I found a nice little icon sitting right next to PO number field, but overlapping it by some millimeters.
This icon denotes whether the PO line item is Drop-Ship or not.
And boy, isn’t that icon looks cute? But unintentionally, it is overlapping on PO number field. Not sure how folks at GP dev team skipped this.
Solution to this issue? Modifier. Use modifier to resize the field, till we get this fixed by GP dev team.
VAIDY
Awesome tip up there on Developing For Dynamics GP blog on how to debug VS Tools For Dynamics GP.
I am late in blogging about this post. But NOW is the time, as this post just saved my 1/2 day. Seriously. Not kidding. I was stuck with one SQL query execution. There were records to be retrieved, but my code didn’t. After 5-10mins of frustrated troubleshooting, I remembered this post. I should have done that immediately then, but I didn’t.
I setup my VS Tools project to launch GP as instructed on this post and within 2 minutes I could find the issue.
This one deserves to be there on Microsoft Dynamics GP Cookbook (technical).
VAIDY
Highly informative post on Dynamics GP Support & Services blog on Common Tips and Issues when Troubleshooting and Testing Integrations in Integration Manager.
I have never read such an expansive post on Integration Manager (IM) ever. Mariano touches specific issues, David (and his technical team) on his blog shares specific topics. But this one’s so very expansive and one stop guide to IM issues and tips.
Bookmark this for your future reference.
VAIDY
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
Are you serious about your Dynamics GP as ERP and are you serious about retaining it till GP becomes completely irrelevant to your business requirements? Contact your partner NOW and get Support Debugging Tool (SDT).
Let me come to the topic now. Earlier, before SDT happened to all of us, when I created a menu item using Extender, I had to restart GP to get this new menu item effected. What’s there in that? It’s something common in GP, isn’t it?
How about creating a menu item using Extender, but instead of restarting GP, just click on an option to get this new menu item immediately effected? Magic? Nope, it’s a reality now. With Support Debugging Tool (SDT), you can.
Open Security Profiler of SDT, and select the menu item Refresh Application Navigation, as shown in below screenshot:
This does exactly what happens when you log on to a company. Cool, isn’t it?
Now, reach out to your partner (if you are a customer) OR download this gem from above SDT portal link (if you are a developer/consultant/partner) and install it on your customers’ GP environment.
This post is to show you a very simple yet tremendously useful feature of SDT. Trust me, there are hundreds of such terrific features available in SDT which will ease your life and earn you reputation as smart consultant.
Find time to appreciate the people who made this SDT possible (and made it a FREE tool for all); David Musgrave & Team. There is a voting going on DynamicsWorld to select Top 100 Influential Microsoft Dynamics People and David’s on page 4. Go ahead and vote for him. Without him and his team, Dynamics GP would be just a mere ERP product, like any other.
VAIDY
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
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