Rushi Patel, from Microsoft Dynamics GP Team in Fargo, has started a new series of posts on Developing For Dynamics GP blog that would shed some light on upcoming Dynamics GP in terms of underlying technologies and how its developed.
First post, Web Client Window Ribbon Part 1, talks about default Ribbon Rules that are followed in developing the web client window ribbon.
Awesome posts ahead.
VAIDY
Mark Polino, after his uber-successful ways of informing the community about many things in Microsoft Dynamics GP, has found one more brilliant way to hook us on to Microsoft Connect (portal where we can voice our feedback about a Microsoft product).
It’s simply this: Every Tuesday, Mark would link us to a feature feedback on Microsoft Connect portal, which require Dynamics GP End Users/Consultants/Developers to vote for it, so it would be worked upon by Microsoft and would get released on subsequent major releases of this product.
Starting with May 1st, 2012, he has already pointed out two features that cry for our attention and vote:
May 1st, 2012: Unit Account should have the option to clear at Year End
May 8th, 2012: Management Reporter should allow each column to have it’s own current rate
And many more to come.
Stay tuned to his blog for future Dynamic Future posts.
VAIDY
I second Christina’s point. Never ever, you consultant, post any transaction on a client’s system. Whatever it is. Be it correction entry or a backlog entry or a real time transaction or even a test entry to demo.
I learned that lesson very long back, around 5 years back, when I was in my infancy on consultancy. Like Christina, my lesson was also very bitter. And then, I never did that ever in my life.
VAIDY
Microsoft had published a white paper on choosing a development tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP, at the time of GP 2010 release.
Though it’s pretty old, it’s still valid even now to refer to this white paper.
Download it here: Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 White Paper – Choosing a Development Tool
Soon, we would all be getting ready for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and I am sure, this white paper would still be valid. 🙂
VAIDY
Awesome tool and I would say, its need of the hour.
Now, I read this post on Microsoft Dynamics GP Support Blog on a tool that comes with Professional Services Tools Library (PSTL) to Prevent Users from Keying Incorrect Document Dates in GP 2010.
But unfortunately, scope of this tool is limited to following transaction entries:
I would have expected this to have even more reach, especially on POP side. Today, just today, I received a bunch of PO Invoices being posted on a wrong date. I would have loved to have this tool on my environment had this covered much more types of transactions.
However, this is still very good than reinventing this by developers or partners.
VAIDY
Microsoft Dynamics Most Influential People Top 100 list is out on DynamicsWorld portal. Congrats for those who have made it to this list.
I could see some of those whom I follow/know very well:
Doug Kennedy (#4), Mark Polino (#20), Frank Hamelly (#67), Mariano Gomez (#66), Victoria Yudin (#93), Dhan Raj (#59), Eric Ernst (#15)
Congrats to you all. You all deserve to be there right on top.
Just my thoughts:
In my humble opinion, David Musgrave deserves to be in that list. I fail to understand how David, whom being so instrumental and influencing on a product that is Microsoft Dynamics GP, could not make it. Alright, it’s all about voting, I know. But still…
There is a whole bunch of community out there who religiously follow him when it comes to Dynamics GP & related technologies.
Strange…
UPDATE (2012-05-10 7:00AM GMT +4.00): Echoing my thoughts are John Lowther and Jivtesh Singh.
VAIDY
Alright… Another off-topic one, but is worth sharing. This post again shows how much Customers are aware about technology and go that extra mile to get educated on systems/software that they use.
The Old New Thing has got a post which explains a flaw in Windows Vista (yeah I can hear you yelling at me as soon as you heard that word) and Windows Server 2008, but got fixed in Windows 7 (are you OK now?) and Windows Server 2008 R2.
The post is about why you can’t use File Sharing wizard if you exclude inheritable permissions from a folder’s parent.
Just in case, people are wondering why this thing never work on Windows Vista (ok ok, that’s the last time I would utter that word) and Windows Server 2008, you have one more reason to dump *you know what*.
VAIDY
I read this on The Daily WTF portal yesterday about an Online Ordering System and how it’s designed. Trust me, it’s going to take you completely by surprise. I won’t explain anything here; read it on their portal.
It’s worth blogging.
VAIDY
Another excellent post up there on Mariano’s blog, which explains how to add customer item user-defined fields to SOP invoice.
The customization is done using Support Debugging Tool (SDT) to achieve this.
There is an interesting point which Mariano mentions there, which is not about the topic itself, but about how clients have started demanding things from us, consultants, which shows how much clients are aware nowadays.
Modifier with VBA would have been the BEST and easy option for any developer or consultant for this functionality. But looks like the client was strictly against it because *it’s not supported on Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client*. 🙂
But that demand indeed had led to another superb piece of customization using SDT.
VAIDY
This is an awesome post from Chris Roehrich on Developing For Dynamics GP blog.
The post explains very neatly (and in detail) about the differences between eConnect for GP and Web Services for GP.
And which one to use or not to, is up to you after you read this post. There are some interesting short discussion on the comments section, so do read the comments as well.
That’s an excellent post, Chris. That surely would have answered several questions from users/consultants across the world.
VAIDY
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