David Meego - Click for blog homepageIf you’ve ever needed to change an existing Customer ID or Vendor ID you would have found that there are tools available, but if you need to change the Address ID values for addresses associated with Customers and Vendors, you would you would be in for an arduous, manual, time consuming task as there are no tools available.

This article provides free sample projects that add these tools to Microsoft Dynamics GP using GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module. The code can be downloaded and installed easily.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageAfter the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2025, we are now starting to see customer sites implementing the new version in their Microsoft Dynamics GP environments.

So far, I have been notified by two customers, that I work closely with, that they are having issues with Dynamics GP performance being slower on the SQL Server 2025 than their previous SQL Server version.

The following information on the issue and a solution has been provided by my colleague and friend, Arthur Achilleos, with a call out to Rob Farley MVP (who assisted Arthur’s troubleshooting).

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageRecently an issue came up on a customer’s system and today another customer had a similar issue. I thought it would be worth writing it up on the blog to help others who come across it.

The issue is an error when attempting to save data within Microsoft Dynamics GP resulting in a dialog in the form below:

Unhandled database exception: A save operation on table ‘XXXX’ (45).

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is the seventh article in the series on making window fields required. If you have not yet read the introduction article to the series, please read that first:

This example uses GP Power Tools to make the Reason Code field on the Item Transfer Entry Scrolling window required. This article was prompted by a support request that came in today.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageEveryone wants extra user defined fields on their Microsoft Dynamics GP windows. In the previous articles we showed how easy it is to add, modify and format the layout of extra fields using GP Power Tools with the new Custom Fields feature.

We thought we were done, but now the request has come through from the HR team to include the Pet related custom fields on the Employee report.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageEveryone wants extra user defined fields on their Microsoft Dynamics GP windows. In the previous articles we showed how easy it is to add, modify and format the layout of extra fields using GP Power Tools with the new Custom Fields feature.

Now we have one final request…. The HR Team want to have the custom fields displayed on the Employee Inquiry window.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageEveryone wants extra user defined fields on their Microsoft Dynamics GP windows. In the previous articles we showed how easy it is to add and modify extra fields using GP Power Tools with the new Custom Fields feature.

Now we have a yet another problem …. “Boss Level Scope Creep”….

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageEveryone wants extra user defined fields on their Microsoft Dynamics GP windows. In the previous article we showed how easy it is to add extra fields using GP Power Tools and its new Custom Fields feature.

Now we have a new problem …. “Scope Creep”. The HR department has realized that their employees might have more than once pet and so would need allow for multiple types of pets to be selected.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageEveryone wants extra user defined fields on their Microsoft Dynamics GP windows.  It is possible to add extra fields but there have always been compromises. Either it requires custom development with scripting and modified or alternate windows, or fields are in a separate window or sidebar, and the data is often stored in multiple records across multiple tables.

This year, as we celebrate 20 years of GP Power Tools, the upcoming Build 33 adds Custom Fields to the Developer Tools module. This amazing new feature allows you to add almost any field to any window without any code or using Modifier.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis year GP Power Tools turns 20 years’ old, and we will celebrate by releasing Build 33 with many enhancements and new features and some fixes. The release of GP Power Tools Build 33 for Microsoft Dynamics GP v18.4 or later is planned for mid-year, once all the development and documentation is completed.

We are excited to tell you about one of the major new features … Login Control.

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