#GPPT Form Control Adding a Customer Status Virtual Field everywhere in GP

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 some additional scripts).

Here is an example showing how you can quickly use Form Control to add a Virtual Field to display the Customer Status to every window in the entire Microsoft Dynamics GP application where a Customer ID is displayed, without needing Modified or Alternate windows.

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#GPPT Form Control Conditional Control of Window Fields

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 an example showing how you can quickly use Form Control to conditionally control the User Defined fields on the Account Maintenance window.

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#GPPT Form Control Setting Default Values when a Window opens

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 set default values on a window when it opens.

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#GPPT Form Control Adding Autocomplete, Formatting and Validation to Fields

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 add formatting, validation and even Autocomplete to a field to ensure it is entered from a list of desired values.

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#GPPT Form Control Changing Window Titles and Field Captions

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 change the window titles and field captions.

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#GPPT Form Control Adding “Save and Continue” to Sales Transaction Entry

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 add menus with shortcut keys to run any script on a window (usually a button).

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#GPPT Form Control Masking or Hiding Item Costs on Item Maintenance

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 mask or hide the Item Cost fields on the Item Maintenance window. A masked field is unreadable unless it has the keyboard focus.

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#GPPT Form Control Automatically Set Posting Type on Account Maintenance

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 automatically set the Posting Type to the correct value when the Account Number is entered on the Account Maintenance window.

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#GPPT Form Control Prevent changing of Journal Entry Numbers

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 users changing the Journal Entry number on the General Ledger Transaction Entry window.

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#GPPT Form Control Preventing Shipment/Invoices on Receivings Transaction Entry

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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#GPPT Form Control Working with Phone and Fax Numbers including Conditional Formats

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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#GPPT Form Control Working with Customer ID, Vendor ID and Item Number

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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#GPPT Form Control Introduction – Making Maintenance windows Read Only – Part 4

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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#GPPT Form Control Introduction – Making Maintenance windows Read Only – Part 3

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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#GPPT Form Control Introduction – Making Maintenance windows Read Only – Part 2

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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#GPPT Form Control Introduction – Making Maintenance windows Read Only – Part 1

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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