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#MySummitNA Winthrop Development Consultants at Community Summit Orlando 2025

Aug 29, 2025 Tagged with Community Summit 2025, Conference, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT, GPUG, Training No Comments

In just over a month’s time my wife, Jennifer, and I will be flying from Perth via Sydney and Dallas/Fort Worth to Orlando, Florida, USA for two weeks at the Community Summit 2025 conference.

During the first week (Monday 13^th to Friday 17^th October 2025), I will be running Dexterity Fundamentals training at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Kissimmee. Then on Sunday 19^th October, I will be running Academy training for GP Power Tools.

Once the conference starts, please come see us at Expo Booth 310. Read on for more information on the two training classes and seven sessions I am presenting or assisting with.

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#GPPT Using .Net Math Functions from Microsoft Dynamics GP

Aug 25, 2025 Tagged with Application, Custom Forms, Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT, Virtual Fields, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit, VSIT No Comments

A recent customization project I was working on using GP Power Tools required the calculation of a square root as part of some number crunching needed to work out material quantities on a Sales Order Processing transaction.

While Dexterity (the language behind Microsoft Dynamics GP) is great at accounting style mathematics (as per a standard calculator), it does not have advanced functions for powers, logs, and trigonometry (as per a scientific calculator). This means that there is no “native” method to calculate a square root.

However, Dexterity (from v14.0 onwards) has a .Net Interop which allows you to import and call .Net libraries directly from your Dexterity scripts. This example shows how to call the System.Math library as well as other advanced techniques, such as Custom Forms and Virtual Fields.

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#GPPT Making Tax Registration Number on Purchasing Vendor Detail Entry Required

Aug 22, 2025 Tagged with Application, Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT No Comments

This is the sixth 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:

#GPPT Making Window Fields Required and Why It Does Not Always Work

This example uses GP Power Tools code to make the Tax Registration Number field on the Purchase Order Entry – Purchasing Vendor Detail Entry sub window (separate form) required.

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#GPPT Making Salesperson ID on Sales Customer Detail Entry Required

Aug 21, 2025 Tagged with Application, Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT No Comments

This is the fifth 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:

#GPPT Making Window Fields Required and Why It Does Not Always Work

This example uses GP Power Tools code to make the Salesperson ID field on the Sales Transaction Entry – Sales Customer Detail Entry sub window (separate form) required.

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#GPPT Making Substitute Item 1 on Item Maintenance Options Required

Aug 20, 2025 Tagged with Application, Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT No Comments

This is the fourth 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:

#GPPT Making Window Fields Required and Why It Does Not Always Work

This example uses GP Power Tools code to make the Substitute Item 1 field on the Item Maintenance Options sub window (same form) required.

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#GPPT Making Tax Registration Number on Vendor Maintenance Options Required

Aug 19, 2025 Tagged with Application, Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT No Comments

This is the third 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:

#GPPT Making Window Fields Required and Why It Does Not Always Work

This example uses GP Power Tools code to make the Tax Registration Number field on the Vendor Maintenance Options sub window (same form) required.

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#GPPT Making Tax Registration Number on Customer Maintenance Options Required

Aug 18, 2025 Tagged with Application, Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT No Comments

This is the second 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:

#GPPT Making Window Fields Required and Why It Does Not Always Work

This example uses GP Power Tools code to make the Tax Registration Number field on the Customer Maintenance Options sub window (same form) required.

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#MSDynGP Microsoft Dynamics GP v18.8 ISV Pre-release installers now available

Aug 16, 2025 Tagged with Application, Batch Posting Service Toolkit, BPST, Dynamics GP, GP Power Tools, GPPT, News, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit, VSIT No Comments

Good News for the Microsoft Dynamics GP Community.

Friday morning (Perth Time) I had an email from Terry Heley from Microsoft with a link to a pre-release (ISV Drop) of the upcoming Microsoft Dynamics GP version 18.8 (October 2025) release. This download is provided to the ISV community to help them prepare for the final code when it is released.

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#GPPT Making Window Fields Required and Why It Does Not Always Work

Aug 15, 2025 Tagged with Application, Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT No Comments

This is the first post in a series of six articles discussing making additional Window Fields required and why the standard technique using Modifier does not always work.

For a field to behave as required, there are a number of different factors that must all fall into place. This article will explain the theory and what can go wrong. Links to examples with sample code will be published over the next week.

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#GPPT Tracking changes to Item Cards Version 5

Aug 13, 2025 Tagged with Application, Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT, SQL No Comments

This is yet another update to the previous version of the change tracking project for Item cards:

#GPPT Tracking changes to Item Cards Version 4

Based on the version 4 project, this update for GP Power Tools Build 32 or later adds support for the Accounts window. Note it does require Build 32 or later to work.