This article explains how Consultants play a crucial role in building the confidence in a Client with respect to the Product he/she implements.

Sales people are the ones who take the lead, but eventually, the Consultants who interact with the Clients on a regular basis and the Consultants who implement the product, are the ones who take the relationship further and bring more values and reputation.

Good One.

VAIDY

Check this out: Interview with Mohammed Daoud, MVP, Jordan. He is sincere and modest in all his replies and you would get a glimpse of his Personal qualities too.

VAIDY

You got to read this article Year-End Closing Myths & Actual Facts written by Christina Phillips, of The Dynamics GP Land.

VAIDY

This one is very informative. David has come up with this article which would shed some light on what A4 Chunk is all about and the FAQs completes it.

Read it here: What is the A4 Chunk?

VAIDY

It’s an immense privilege to add Frank Hamelly’s GP Tip For Today (gptip42day) in my blog as a direct feed link.

That means, those who visit my blog would see a Side Column link to Frank’s most recent GP TIP, under my Greetings To All section. I borrowed this idea from Victoria Yudin’s blog, where she has added Frank’s gptip42day similarly.

VAIDY

I was working on a feature addition for which I decided to use the Extender SP4 for GP 10.0.

With Extender SP4 for GP 10.0, we have new features called “Extender Forms” and “Extender Detailed Forms”. This is different from Windows and Detailed Windows. The Forms and Detailed Forms will be created as a Stand Alone Forms just like any other GP Form under a Menu Item which we define in Extender Menus.

Pro: This is a great boon for us to define additional Masters which are not provided in GP. Anything that we need, can be created. We don’t have to place this form anywhere in GP as an Additional Form.

Con: There is something called ID Field Prompt. Extender by default and mandatorily gives us an ID field for each such Individual Form. This ID field is also configurable to Auto-Increment the ID values. An example is shown below:

In the Options section for this Detailed Form, I setup the Next ID Number (which will be incremented whenever I create a new record). This is shown below:

Now, once this is setup and saved, when I try to create a new record, the Next ID Number is taken correctly from the Extender Options Setup. But if I don’t save this record and simply click on Clear to start a fresh entry, I can notice that my Next ID Number is not reverted back.

It just increment the ID Number but it does not revert back even if I do not use the generated one.

You just keep on press Clear, and it will keep on incrementing my Next ID Number. Which is absurd to any user’s point of view. But we cannot help it I believe, as GP does not maintain the Unused ID Numbers and prompt the user whether he/she would like to use any of these Unused Numbers.

Nevertheless this is a BIG MISS and I would like to see some improvement in this area when the next version is released.

VAIDY

You got to be delighted to learn the basics from the Master. David has given us an article which sums up the Dex Basics while designing the UI. Read it here: Checklist for creating a new Dexterity Window.

I would add one more point to this: When you compile your code and see some Warnings, just be a bit patient and go thru’ each Warning. You would certainly be looking at something really critical which may not pose critical at the time of compiling. Take a look at this article of mine for instance: Declaring Variables to Relevant Datatypes. This could have been avoided if that Developer had taken care of the Warning message Possible Data Loss due to Type Mismatch.

While Dex Basics have been taught again and again, articles like this are still needed as we tend to forget the basics while concentrating on the complexities. For a Customer UI is the window to a Product. He/She does not really worry about what is written beneath that UI and how it is.

A product is judged first by it’s Look & Feel and only then the Features itself. I am sure many would disagree but that’s my humble thought.

VAIDY

I read this article today: Critical Mistakes Freelancers Make, by Robert Bowen in Smashing Magazine.

I would admit that this article will enlighten all Freelancers (and also the Soon-To-Be Freelancers). The points which are highlighted in this article are really critical and those who want to become a Successful Freelancer must read this.

Added to what is explained in that article, I would also add one more point: Put Quality over Price of your Project.

I would rather take up a project which will educate me more with concepts than a project which is simply going to increase my Bank Account. I am not advocating that Money is not at all important. All I am trying to say is: Price will automatically start coming if you have the Substance in you. And to gain that Substance, you need to take up more Concepts Oriented Projects instead of mere Touch & Go ones.

You are most welcome to share your thoughts on this with our Community.

VAIDY

18th Nov 2009 (yesterday), my blog reached it’s first ever distinction of crossing 100 visitors per day.

Yeah I know it’s something silly 🙂 but it is indeed an achievement for an Amateur Blogger like me. I strive hard to be more responsible and informative when I blog. And I hope in coming days and years I will be able to contribute to the GP Community.

Thanks for all Readers & Visitors to keep this blog alive and successful, and needless to say, do read and visit my blog as usual.

VAIDY

Recently I was working on an Issue which occurred in GP8.0. This one’s pretty interesting I would say.

An Item was created and while entering the Item Quantity/Site Assignment, the user could not save the record. He assigned a Site and assigned a Vendor as Primary Vendor. But clicking on Save did not actually save the record, but on the surface it did seem like saved.

I tried all possible ways but in vain. I then checked the table IV00102 (IV Qty Site Master) to check whether there is any issue pertaining to this Item. And it did. There was a record entered for this Item with a Record Type as 1 (All Sites). Now while the User did not assign this Item to ALL SITES, this record is not possible at all, unless he saved the Specific Site & Primary Vendor Assignment, which did not happen at all. Somehow this record had got created.

I deleted this record from the table and then tried assigning Site and Primary Vendor. It merrily got saved.

Well, I do not know the reason and the exact pattern under which I could recreate this scenario. But it did exist. Probably a One-Off case, or probably something else.

VAIDY