David Meego - Click for blog homepageSadly, the day has finally arrived. We knew it was coming for many years. Since the premature (since retracted) announcement by Mike Morton at Community Summit 2022, it has been expected sooner rather than later.

As of the 25th September 2024, it is official. Microsoft Dynamics GP product development will cease completely in 2031 with new feature development and product support stopping a little earlier.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageGP Power Tools Form Control is a “No Code/Low Code” customization tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP. It can be used to solve many requirements without any coding.

Here is a real-life example showing how you can quickly use Form Control to prevent entering Shipment/Invoices on the Receivings Transaction Entry window.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageGP Power Tools Form Control is a “No Code/Low Code” customization tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP. It can be used to solve many requirements without any coding (or with a small conditional script).

Here is a real-life example showing how you can quickly use Form Control to control phone and fax numbers in Microsoft Dynamics GP throughout the whole product.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageGP Power Tools Form Control is a “No Code/Low Code” customization tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP. It can be used to solve many requirements without any coding.

Here are some real-life examples showing how you can quickly use Form Control to control how key fields such as Customer ID, Vendor ID and Item Number are entered into Microsoft Dynamics GP throughout the whole product.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageForm Control provides a “No Code/Low Code” Customization tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP that can revolutionize how users, consultants and developers can make changes to the GP windows work. It was added as a new module to GP Power Tools with the release of Build 31.

This is the fourth article in a series of four articles. The series provides an introduction to Form Control, why it was created, how it works and what it is capable of doing. I will describe how the initial example of making Maintenance windows Read Only was configured. Then I will provide details of some extensions that can be added. The final article has downloadable sample projects for both Customer and Vendor Maintenance.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageForm Control provides a “No Code/Low Code” Customization tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP that can revolutionize how users, consultants and developers can make changes to how GP windows work. It was added as a new module to GP Power Tools with the release of Build 31.

This is the third article in a series of four articles. The series provides an introduction to Form Control, why it was created, how it works and what it is capable of doing. I will describe how the initial example of making Maintenance windows Read Only was configured. Then I will provide details of some extensions that can be added. The final article has downloadable sample projects for both Customer and Vendor Maintenance.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageForm Control provides a “No Code/Low Code” Customization tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP that can revolutionize how users, consultants and developers can make changes to how GP windows work. It was added as a new module to GP Power Tools with the release of Build 31.

This is the second article in a series of four articles. The series provides an introduction to Form Control, why it was created, how it works and what it is capable of doing. I will describe how the initial example of making Maintenance windows Read Only was configured. Then I will provide details of some extensions that can be added. The final article has downloadable sample projects for both Customer and Vendor Maintenance.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageForm Control provides a “No Code/Low Code” Customization tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP that can revolutionize how users, consultants and developers can make changes to how GP windows work. It was added as a new module to GP Power Tools with the release of Build 31.

This is the first article in a series of four articles. The series provides an introduction to Form Control, why it was created, how it works and what it is capable of doing. I will describe how the initial example of making Maintenance windows Read Only was configured. Then I will provide details of some extensions that can be added. The final article has downloadable sample projects for both Customer and Vendor Maintenance.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageI recently had a discussion with a customer about GP Power Tools appearing to slow down Microsoft Dynamics GP performance during login.

In summary, GP Power Tools was not slowing down performance, but it was making users wait until all background login processes had completed before they could use GP. The option to display the “Please Wait” dialog is controlled by a setting in the Administrator Settings window.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageSomething that is always a question when adding an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) add on product to Microsoft Dynamics GP is whether it negatively affects performance.

The short technical answer is always going to be Yes. As any additional code will take time to process. However, the real question is whether the effect on performance is noticeable to users.

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