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David Meego - Click for blog homepageAfter the publishing of the GP Power Tools projects for tracking changes to Customer and Vendor Cards, there have been requests for the same functionality for Item Cards.

Starting with the framework updated in the version 2 of the Customer and Vendor tracking projects:

I have created the same functionality for Item Cards. It is labelled as Version 2 so it stays in sync with the other trackers. Even though this is actually the first release, it is based on the Version 2 code.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is an update to the previous version of the change tracking projects for Customer and Vendor cards:

Based on the original projects, they have been enhanced to add some more fields into the default fields tracked, add support for array fields, and add support for tracking Modifier Added fields.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageI have had quite a few requests for Dexterity Training recently. So once I decided to go to Community Summit in Orlando, Florida, USA in October, I planned to run a 5 day Dexterity Fundamentals Bootcamp in the week beforehand. Please register your interest as soon as possible to ensure the course goes ahead.

Dexterity is the development environment that Microsoft Dynamics GP is built on and the best tool to use for any customization to the user interface of the product. Knowledge of Dexterity is vital for anyone customizing Dynamics GP even when using other development tools such as GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module, Visual Studio Tools (C# or VB .Net) or “End of Life” VBA (Visual Basic for Application).

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageAfter two years of uncertainty, I am finally heading back to the United States for the Community Summit conference in Orlando, Florida, USA in 10th to 13th of October 2022.

I will be running Dexterity and GP Power Tools training, presenting a number of conference sessions and manning an Expo booth.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageToday, I started the morning with a support call with a US customer and partner regarding what appeared to be a performance issue caused by GP Power Tools.

Once we used GP Power Tools to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of the issue, it was easy to see why they incorrectly thought the problem was caused by GP Power Tools.

Read on to understand what happened and how to make sure it does not happen on your systems ….

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis article and sample GP Power Tools project comes about after hearing about a disturbing situation that has resulted in an unsuspecting Australian business receiving a surprise $100,000 tax bill.

The sample project code provided at the bottom of this article was created to help ensure that Australian Microsoft Dynamics GP sites don’t get caught out in the same way.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageIt has been a while since I have posted a Friday Funny, so here is my latest fun find for you.

Fellow Microsoft MVP Mark Rendle presented this great session at the NDC Conference in Oslo, Norway in 2021 about his personal quest to design the worst programming language ever!

After watching the video with laughter, shock and horror I had to share it with you.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageI have been asked many times about integrating data using GP Power Tools. While this is not what GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module was originally designed to do, it can be used to integrate data (for both adding and updating records).

The main reason for writing this article and creating the updated project was because a friend asking for a quick method for updating Item List Price information because their suppliers are providing new pricing information on a weekly (or less) basis.

The IMPORT_EXAMPLE Project take an original example script and massively improves on its capabilities to make it really simple method to integrate data for Accounts, Customers, Vendors and Items from a CSV (Comma Separated Values) text file. The file can be edited with Excel or your favourite text editor but must be saved as an 8-bit ASCII file using the ANSI or UTF-8 option.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageYou might be aware of the new Security requirements for Bank Account Numbers which applies to ACH Originators and Third-Parties with more than 2 million ACH payments annually and becomes effective on 30-Jun-2022.

NACHA, the governing body for ACH transactions in the United States, is rolling out updated security requirements which are actually best practice whether you meet the transaction level targets or not.

Read on for how you handle the requirements on your Microsoft Dynamics GP system.

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