Conference, GP Power Tools, GPUG, Products, Training

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageI am pleased to announce that as well as the Dexterity Training there will be GP Power Tools training offered by the GPUG Academy during the Academy days before Community Summit in Orlando, Florida, USA.

The training will be presented as a single full day course on Monday 10th October 2022, running from 8:00am to 5:00pm with lunch included.

We have lots of new functionality and enhancements to cover with the release of Build 29 of GP Power Tools recently.

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Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageToday we are revisiting the article #GPPT Automating or Customizing the Report Destination Window. In this article we show how Build 29 of GP Power Tools can improve on the methods used previously.

When automating Microsoft Dynamics GP, if a Report Destination modal dialog window opens, it needs to be dismissed so that the rest of the automation code can continue. This article contains a demonstration project that shows how to dismiss the 3 different dialogs used.

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Batch Posting Service Toolkit, GP Power Tools, News, Products, Public Service Announcement, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWinthrop Development Consultants was recently notified by InstallAware, the supplier of the installer software used for the distribution packages for all our products, that a Security Vulnerability was identify in their product. They have released a new version that resolves the issue.

However, the issue will exist on all machines that have used an installer built with the previous compromised versions of their installer software.

Using the newly fixed installer software, we have created and released new builds of all our products which should be installed at all customer and partner sites as soon as possible. Any build of any of our products downloaded and installed after 10-Aug-2022 contains the fix.

[Edit] Old builds with this security vulnerability were discontinued at the end of December 2023, except for final builds of old GP versions. More details below.

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GP Power Tools, News, Products

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWinthrop Development Consultants is excited to announce Build 29 of GP Power Tools (GPPT) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was finally released on 10-Aug-2022.

This build is the culmination of a year of development, testing and documentation work and enhances and consolidates the features and functionality of many areas in GP Power Tools. It is two years since build 28.1 was released and a year since the last hotfix (build 28.9), but this release makes the product significantly more powerful and usable.

This article lists some of the major new features and enhancements. It won’t list everything but to give you an idea of how much has been added, the user guide manual has grown from 592 pages in build 28 to 713 pages in build 29!

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Business, Dynamics, GP, Microsoft, Training

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageAs part of my marketing strategy for the last six months, I have been working with Dynamics Connections to promote my products to the Microsoft Dynamics GP partner channel.

GP Power Tools is a very easy product to sell. You just need to show the Benefits Presentation to a customer and they will want it on their system. So the aim is to get the partners to show this short presentation to their customers.

I have found that using Carol Livingston and the team at Dynamics Connections has been a worthwhile investment with an increased awareness of our products amongst the partners after her presentations.

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Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, SQL Server, Visual Studio

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageGP Power Tools is a subscription based product. This means it needs current, valid Registration Keys to stay operational.

If you have written Mission Critical Custom Code using GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module, you will want to ensure that those triggers and scripts stay active at all times and if the registration fails for any reason that you are notified immediately.

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Robocup Junior, Robotics

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageAt the recent Robocup Junior Western Australian State Championships competition, I took a few moments just before the awards ceremony to demonstrate a robot that could move in any direction.

While the actual robot was originally designed for the Rescue Maze challenge to allow it adjust its position in the maze by moving sideways, it ended up being much more capable in how it can move and could be the basis for a dancing robot for the Onstage Performance challenge. 😀

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Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageOne of the current limitations for GP Power Tools is that it cannot create new Dexterity windows.

[Edit] GP Power Tools can now create Custom Forms, so this is no longer a limitation:

Usually, it is possible to avoid this requirement by:

  • Using Modifier to add extra fields to an existing window;
  • Using the SQL Results window to display data with SQL Gotos to perform actions on that data;
  • Using Dexterity modal dialogs (ask() and getstring() for example) to get information needed;
  • Using Modifier even adding a complete “sub window” onto an existing window (example below).

This article provides another method leveraging the .Net Framework functionality to create a dynamic form using code.

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