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How to add Item Category Long Descriptions to reports using the Support Debugging Tool

May 23, 2011 Tagged with Advanced Topic, Dexterity, Report Writer, Support, Support Debugging Tool 7 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

I am currently working on a support case where the customer is making use of the six user defined categories for items. That in itself is nothing remarkable or worth blogging about. However, they are using Long Description field on the Item Category Setup window and wished to include the data from this field onto reports. That’s the difficult bit.

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How to read a Dexterity Script Profile to solve Performance Issues

May 12, 2011 Tagged with Advanced Topic, Best Practice, Dexterity, Performance, SQL, Support, Support Debugging Tool 5 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Today, I thought I would spend a little time explain how to read a Dexterity Script Profile to resolve a performance issue. To demonstrate this I will use a support case I had where the customer was intermittent long delays when clicking on the checkbox on the Apply Sales Document window.

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Quick Tip: How to create conditional Triggers in Dexterity

May 9, 2011 Tagged with Advanced Topic, Best Practice, Dexterity, Quick Tips 3 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Here is another Quick Tip article. This time I wanted to discuss the best practices for making conditional triggers in Dexterity.

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Quick Tip: Understanding the Dexterity Reject Script command

Apr 27, 2011 Tagged with Advanced Topic, Best Practice, Dexterity, Quick Tips 6 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

This is a Quick Tip post to explain how the Dexterity Reject Script command works.

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Working with Temporary Files in Dexterity

Oct 27, 2010 Tagged with Advanced Topic, Best Practice, Dexterity 5 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Keeping with the theme of my previous post, I have another “Temporary” topic to discuss.

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Working with Temporary Tables in Dexterity

Oct 25, 2010 Tagged with Advanced Topic, Best Practice, Dexterity, SQL 8 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Dexterity developers often need to use temporary tables to perform tasks, such as displaying data in a different order, consolidating or totalling data, to store data while it is being edited, or to combine data from tables so it can be sorted using an index using fields from multiple tables.

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Writing to An Event Log in a Visual Studio Tools Customization

Oct 14, 2010 Tagged with Advanced Topic, Development Tools, NDM, Patrick Roth, Visual Studio Tools, Windows 7 No Comments

This is a reposting of an article Patrick Roth originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

So you are writing your top notch, one-of-a-kind Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP customization.

You’ve covered all the bases for any potential errors and just in case you miss any and an exception is thrown, you are catching the exception to write into an event log.

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Changing Dictionary Context when using Passthrough Dexterity sanScript Part 2

Jul 13, 2010 Tagged with Advanced Topic, Cross Dictionary, Dexterity, VBA 1 Comment

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

This is the second in a series of posts which are are designed to help Dexterity developers as well as VBA and Visual Studio Developers to understand how to work with passthrough Dexterity sanScript. The main focus of this series is to understand how to change the Dictionary Context that the code executes in.

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Changing Dictionary Context when using Passthrough Dexterity sanScript Part 1

Jul 11, 2010 Tagged with Advanced Topic, Cross Dictionary, Dexterity 2 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

This is the first in a series of posts which are are designed to help Dexterity developers as well as VBA and Visual Studio Developers to understand how to work with passthrough Dexterity sanScript. The main focus of this series is to understand how to change the Dictionary Context that the code executes in.

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Getting Table and Field Data out of Dexterity Dictionaries

Jul 7, 2010 Tagged with Advanced Topic, Dexterity, Support Debugging Tool 18 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Today, I have something special. Also, something that I had not planned to do…

Over the years since Mark Rockwell and I published the Pushing the Limits with Dexterity, I have been asked a number of times about accessing dictionary resources such as tables and fields. This is information that is not stored anywhere in SQL tables and can only be accessed using Dexterity sanScript code to “read” the resources definitions.

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