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Smartlist: Exports slowly to Excel – Part 1

May 13, 2010 Tagged with Application, Dex.ini, NDM, Patrick Roth, Performance, Smartlist 32 Comments

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

In the last few weeks (here and here), I’ve enumerated several questions that I’ve been asked and have seen posted to the public Dynamics GP newsgroups. These questions are typically of the “Why doesn’t Smartlist..?” variety.

In this post and a few planned future posts, I’ll look at each of these questions individually and give a few thoughts around them and maybe a few solutions as well.

Developing For Dynamics GP

Support Debugging Tool version error on GP 2010 RTM

May 11, 2010 Tagged with Dex.ini, Exception, GP 2010, Support Debugging Tool 1 Comment

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

With the availability of the Released To Manufacturing (RTM) build of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010, an issue has been discovered with the version check code in the Support Debugging Tool build 12.

Developing For Dynamics GP

Testing Date Driven Features in GP

Dec 18, 2009 Tagged with Alice Newsam, Dex.ini, Macro, NDM, Testing 1 Comment

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

Have you ever had a piece of functionality that is date driven that you wanted to automate a test for but couldn’t figure out the best way to control the dates in the system? Then this post will be very helpful for you! A common area I receive questions on when talking with partners and customers is around automating features such as MRP which is extremely date driven. This post is going to cover settings in the Dex.ini and Keys.ini files that will help you set the system to specific dates and times.

Developing For Dynamics GP

Dexterity Chunk file wouldn’t merge

Oct 8, 2009 Tagged with Dave Dusek, Dex.ini, Dexterity, NDM, Support 8 Comments

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

This blog post is about a Dexterity support incident that I recently had that ended up to be more difficult than I originally thought. This one should have been easy, when a chunk doesn’t merge, it’s usually always easy. Except this case. The background is the following.

Developing For Dynamics GP

Copying Record Notes and OLE Attachments between Companies

Oct 4, 2009 Tagged with Application, Dex.ini, Dexterity, Integration, Integration Manager, Notes & OLE Attachments, SQL 3 Comments

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

Following on from last week’s post on OLE Attachments and Record Notes, I can now get to the reason for the interest in notes and OLE attachments.

The partner was trying to copy master records for Vendors from one company to a new company. They wanted to use SmartList to export the Vendor data out of the source company and then use Integration Manager to bring the data into the target company. The problem was how to handle the record notes that may be attached and how to handle the OLE attachments if they existed.

Developing For Dynamics GP

OLE Attachments and Record Notes

Oct 1, 2009 Tagged with Application, Dex.ini, Dexterity, Notes & OLE Attachments 4 Comments

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

While working on a recent support case, I was asked again about how Notes work and in particular the OLE attachments. In the previous post, Understanding Notes and the Note Index field, we discussed where the next Note Index value comes from. In this post, we will discuss how the record notes are created and where the OLE attachments are stored.

Developing For Dynamics GP

Installing the Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP FAQ

Aug 4, 2009 Tagged with Application, Dex.ini, Support, Support Debugging Tool 6 Comments

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

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The Support Debugging Tool is now GP Power Tools from Winthrop Development Consultants (https://winthropdc.com/GPPT)

I have been asked a few times recently about installing the Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP on a live system. This post covers some of the Frequently Asked Questions about installing the tool.

Developing For Dynamics GP

Any Font in the Dexterity Script Editor

Jul 5, 2009 Tagged with Dex.ini, Dexterity, Fonts, Fun, NDM, Patrick Roth 2 Comments

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

Aren’t secrets fun? And while having a secret is fun in and of itself, it is also fun to share them from time to time (and allowed to share them).

The secret today is an undocumented feature that I believe was added to 10.0 SP2. As an undocumented feature, this means:

It might not work for you
It might cause “issues”
Don’t ask support about it if it causes “issues”
Might not work in the future

That said:

I can’t see why it wouldn’t work
I don’t see what issues it would cause and is completely reversible

Developing For Dynamics GP

Dexterity: Creating custom ini files

Mar 15, 2009 Tagged with Dex.ini, Dexterity, NDM, Patrick Roth No Comments

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

One question that I’ve been asked a few times in the past has been – “Can I read/write to other sections of the Dex.ini other than the [General] section with Dexterity?”.

Here I presume the questioner would like to have their own section of the dex.ini file to write their own application settings instead of mixing them into the settings that Dynamics GP uses.

Developing For Dynamics GP

All about the Dexterity OLE Container

Nov 28, 2008 Tagged with Application, Blogsphere, Dex.ini, Dexterity, Notes & OLE Attachments, Visual Studio Tools 1 Comment

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

Over the years, the question of how to interact with the Microsoft Dynamics GP OLE Notes from outside the application has been raised many times.

I have responded to newsgroup posts with information that would hopefully lead the developers in the right direction.

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