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Microsoft Dynamics GP is just over 25 years old now and there are big plans to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
The Dynamics product and its underlying development environment, Dexterity, were developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. On the 29th February 1993, Great Plains Software released its new accounting system with a GUI (Graphical User Interface), Dynamics 1.0.
It took a little while after the old Microsoft Connect site for Microsoft Dynamics GP product suggestions was shut down, but the new site has been up and running for a little while and is getting lots of great suggestions added.
I recommend signing in and reviewing the existing suggestions and even adding some of your own ideas (if they are not there already). The Microsoft Dynamics GP development team use these suggestions when deciding on future enhancements to the product.
It has been just over a year since the last time this old chestnut was raised by someone in the community.
This time the question of Microsoft Dynamics GP’s future has been raised by Mark Brummel, who was a Microsoft MVP (Business Solutions) for the Microsoft Dynamics NAV product, and is based in the Netherlands.
One of the regular pieces of feedback I often hear from Microsoft Dynamics GP users is that they really wished that the application would remember where they want their windows positioned.
To solve this issue, in Build 22 of GP Power Tools, I added the Window Position Memory feature (released in February 2017).
Last year, I went to Johannesburg, South Africa for the ReigniteGP conference organised by Pieter Cornelius from Braintree with the support of Dynamics Africa. The conference was fantastic and it was great to get to know the African GP Community.
This year the conference is back and it is better. Now working with Dynamic Communities the conference has been re-launched as GPUG Amplify South Africa.
I recently had issues with one of my products and need to share the cause of the issue and the solution with the Microsoft Dynamics GP development community.
I made changes to all my products late last year, introducing a new registration system. The code uses Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP addin DLLs written in Visual C# to handle all the communication with the appropriate registration server.
A little while back I was discussing the Microsoft Dynamics GP HTML5 Web Client with an Australian Partner Consultant and he told me about an issue I was not aware of with date formats.
It turns out that the HTML5 web client does not display date formats correctly for anyone outside of North America. More specifically, the date format used in the application windows is in MM/DD/YYYY format regardless of your workstation’s regional settings.
If you want to do any reporting on Microsoft Dynamics GP application level security from the SQL Server level, you need to use the Security Resource Descriptions (SY09400) table to map the Resources Type, Dictionary ID and Security/Resource ID to actual named resources that make sense to humans.
I have often seen questions raised about why some systems have all the resources listed in this table and other systems only have a subset of the resources or the table is empty.
With the addition of Service Based Architecture (SBA) into Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 and later, Dexterity global procedures can be marked as Service Enabled.
This allows a Dexterity global procedure to be a Service procedure which is exposed as a REST based web service via Service Base Architecture.
Dynamic Communities have recently opened registration for the next GPUG Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, USA on the 15th to 18th October 2018.
GPUG Summit is the premier event for the Microsoft Dynamics GP community. Learn and connect with fellow Dynamics experts, Microsoft Support Technicians, Engineers, MVPs and more from around the globe, all while enjoying Phoenix, Arizona!
