David Meego - Click for blog homepageThanks to Kim Peterson from Dynamics Connections, I am pleased to release a new video demonstration of Winthrop Development Consultants’ GP Power Tools (build 23).

Watch to learn why every Microsoft Dynamics GP site globally should have GP Power Tools and why many partners now install GP Power Tools as part of their standard installation.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageToday’s article comes after a GP Power Tools customer asked for  the ability to track when the Credit Limit on a Customer Master record was changed.

A user of the system had made changes to a customer’s credit limit without permission and the financial controller wanted to be notified if this ever happened again.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThe first release of GP Power Tools as a Winthrop Development Consultants product was two years ago at the start of August 2015. Two years later, some the early adopters of the tool are starting to receive warnings that their subscriptions have expired even if they have paid to renew their subscriptions.

This article explains what is happening and how to resolve the issue.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageI am please to announce that there will be GP Power Tools training offered by the GPUG Academy on the Monday before GPUG Summit 2017, in Nashville, Tennessee.

We will be running Introduction to GP Power Tools in the morning and Advanced GP Power Tools Tricks and Tips in the afternoon of Monday 9th October 2017.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageAnother reason for the lack for articles recently is that I have been working on a hotfix for GP Power Tools.

Developers…. make sure you read the last bullet point in the list below. No more SDK woes.

A hotfix for GP Power Tools Build 22 was released on 19-Jun-2017. This release shows as Last Modified: 19-Jun-2017 on the About GP Power Tools window and the installer version is XX.00.0022.7.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageLast night I boarded an airplane from Perth, Western Australia heading to Johannesburg, South Africa.

When this article is published, I will be somewhere flying over the Indian Ocean with a couple more hours before landing.

I am going to the ReigniteGP 2017 conference in Gauteng, Johannesburg and will spend a week with the South African Microsoft Dynamics GP community.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageIn case you missed it, yesterday was Fabrikam Day for the Microsoft Dynamics GP community. This was the 12th April 2017, the date that the sample company’s, Fabrikam, data is based around.

For more information about Fabrikam Day and the sample company have a look at my article from yesterday:

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThanks to Pieter Cornelius (for inviting me) and the team from Braintree, I will be going to the ReigniteGP 2017 conference in Gauteng, South Africa near Johannesburg.

This first of a kind event in South Africa will bring together Microsoft Dynamics GP end-users, technical resources and partners in instructional sessions, and showcases, focusing on all versions of Dynamics GP.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageLast week, I wrote about a situation which was causing issues with the Database Validation feature of GP Power Tools. Triggers on the ACTIVITY table that fired when records are deleted that attempt to clean up data in the company that the record is related to.

The problem is that if the current user does not have access to this company or company database does not exist or is not online, errors are generated and the code fails. This is discussed in my blog:

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