David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

I had a case today where a developer was having issues when using the Customer Combiner. This functionality was part of PSTL (Professional Services Tools Library) and as of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2 is now part of core code.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Today, I came across an issue where a feature in Microsoft Dynamics GP would work when the workstation had its regional settings set to United States, but would fail to produce any data when the workstation had its regional setting set to Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, etc.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 introduced another long sought after feature….
The Named System Database.

Instead of the System database being hardcoded to DYNAMICS, a different name can be selected when installing GP.

So what does that mean? Well, it means that more than one Dynamics GP system can reside on a single instance of SQL Server. Before when a second Dynamics GP system was needed, you would have to install a new instance of SQL Server. Now you can have multiple System Databases on a single server without needing additional instances of SQL Server.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

This Quick Tip comes to you after I faced this issue in a recent customisation project. I had seen this issue before and knew the approach required to solve it, but I don’t think it has been documented publicly till now.

 

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

There is an unsupported method of copying report formats between reports that is very commonly used (and even recommended by me), but we recently had a case that highlighted a problem with the technique. This blog post will discuss the method and the issue we have seen.

 

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

My good friend, Mariano Gomez (The Dynamics GP Blogster) raised this issue recently. He wanted to use the method I discussed in my previous Quick Tip post: Quick Tip: Accessing Third Party Table Buffers using anonymous tables to gain access to the third party table so he could display it in a Scrolling Window on his form.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

I have been spending a lot of time recently working on consulting engagement in Malaysia. This project involves a large amount of custom Dexterity code, some of which involves accessing tables in other third party product’s dictionaries.

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