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Customise the Microsoft Dynamics GP Splash Screen

Sep 30, 2008 Tagged with Application, Fun, History, Logo 9 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Even though support for a splash screen was added to Dexterity v3.00, Great Plains Dynamics v5.50 was the first version to include a splash.bmp file and Microsoft Business Solutions – Great Plains v8.00 was the last version to include a splash.bmp file. This uncompressed bitmap was displayed as a splash screen when the application was launched. A number of partners had worked out that the splash.bmp file could be customised to add a customer or partner logo, but now the splash.bmp file is not longer used.

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Hybrid – Purchasing Terms & Conditions Example

Sep 29, 2008 Tagged with Dexterity, Hybrid, Named Printers, Report Writer, VBA 3 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

This example shows how you can call a Dexterity report from Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). The report can be either a built in report or a custom report. If a built in report is used security will define whether the original, modified, alternate or modified alternate version will be printed.

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Hybrid – Cheque Amount in Words Example

Sep 29, 2008 Tagged with Dexterity, DUOS, Hybrid, Report Writer, RW Functions, VBA 15 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

One of the Report Writer functions added to v7.00 onwards (see Using the built-in Report Writer Functions) was the RW_ConvertToWordsAndNumbers() function to convert a currency amount into words. After the code was added, it was realised that Report Writer calculated fields of return type string are limited to 80 characters. This means that if your amount in words is longer than 80 characters, only the first 80 characters will be returned and the rest will be truncated and lost.

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Menus for Visual Studio Tools – The wait is over

Sep 23, 2008 Tagged with C#, Developer Toolkit, Dexterity, Hybrid, Menus for Visual Studio Tools, Tools, VB, Visual Studio Tools 26 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Menus for Visual Studio Tools is now Visual Studio Integration Toolkit from Winthrop Development Consultants (https://winthropdc.com/VSIT)

Some brilliant news for Microsoft Visual Studio developers who use Visual Studio Tools to integrate with Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0.

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Why do currency and quantity numbers greater than 999 fail to show?

Sep 22, 2008 Tagged with Application, ODBC 2 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

There are times when Microsoft Dynamics GP fails to display currency and quantity numbers greater than 999 after they have been saved.

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VBA – Default Lookup Sort Order Example

Sep 15, 2008 Tagged with VBA 2 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

The following VBA example shows how you can set a lookup window to open with a default sort order. The reason that this is normally difficult is that the usual methods that people use to set defaults with VBA do not work on lookup windows.

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Hybrid – Adding Record Notes to a window Example

Sep 11, 2008 Tagged with Dexterity, Hybrid, Modifier, VBA 2 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

I spent this morning discussing a very interesting customisation with my good friend Mariano Gomez. We had both seen a newsgroup posting asking if it was possible to add access to the Item Master’s record note from the Item Inquiry window using VBA. Mariano had told me that he wanted to see if he could do it and this morning sent me the first version of his code as a package.

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Hybrid – Running a macro to automatically close GP Example

Sep 10, 2008 Tagged with Dexterity, Hybrid, Macro, VBA 7 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

The following VBA example shows how a macro file can be started from VBA. This particular example will close Microsoft Dynamics GP when the Check Links window closes. As macros wait for background processes to complete, the macro will not start until the Check Links process and report have completed.

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Modifier – Adding a field to a scrolling window using ADO Example

Sep 10, 2008 Tagged with ADO, Modifier, VBA 10 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

The following VBA example adds the Sales Order Processing User Defined 3 field onto the Receivables Transaction Inquiry window.

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VBA – Welcome to Dynamics Example

Sep 9, 2008 Tagged with Application, Fun, History, VBA 7 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

For those of you who have been involved with the Great Plains product for a while, you will remember the “Welcome to Dynamics” wave that played when the application was launched. Well, if you want that functionality again, you can use VBA to add it back.