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Hi everyone out there in GP land.
Thanks for the very positive feedback I am receiving for GP Power Tools Build 22. It seems like the new features and enhancements are being appreciated by the Microsoft Dynamics GP community.
Make sure you try out Deny Based Security and Window Position Memory as these are features every Dynamics GP customer can use.
Following on from my recent article, #GPPT Adding Vendor Item Number to SOP Documents, I thought it would be worth showing how we can use GP Power Tools custom Report Writer RW functions with a SQL Query to obtain any data available from any table on the SQL Server.
To make this happen we are going to combine the Runtime Execute Setup custom RW function code with a SQL script created in SQL Execute Setup. Note that these techniques, which have been available since June 2009, are completely Web Client compatible which makes them even more valuable now.
In my previous post, RW: Using the rw_TableLineString() and rw_TableLineCurrency() Report Writer functions, I mentioned the six report writer functions which can be used by developers to get custom data onto reports.
GP Power Tools takes advantage of these functions to allow the creation of custom Report Writer RW functions. In fact, this custom report writer function feature has been available since the release of the Support Debugging Tool build 11 in June 2009.
After months of work, I am extremely excited to announce that GP Power Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP (GPPT) Build 22 is now available for download. Please update your systems to get all the new features.
GP Power Tools was previously known as Support Debugging Tool (SDT), which was discontinued in October 2014. If you are still using the previous product, please upgrade to the supported and much better GP Power Tools product.
I have been asked a couple of times recently about how to copy the Company Color Themes for a test environment, so I thought I would document the answer in a blog article.
GP Power Tools has the ability to change the background colors within Microsoft Dynamics GP for each company. This feature currently only works for the desktop client, if you want it to work in the web client, vote for this MS Connect product suggestion.
At the reIMAGINE 2016 and GPUG Summit 2016 conferences, I promised that a new build of GP Power Tools was coming and that it would have lots of great features.
[Update: GP Power Tools Build 22 was released in February 2017.]
Well, I have been working hard and have now completed the coding phase of the development. I will now be working on updating the documentation in preparation for the release of the build.
In the last eight years, there have been an increasing number of display issues when using Microsoft Dynamics GP on high resolution monitors. There are a number of different factors coming into play which cause Dynamics GP to display incorrectly.
This article explains the issues, their causes and their solutions and finally explains how GP Power Tools makes the solutions extremely simple to implement.
[Edit] FYI: Build 29 of GP Power Tools automatically applies the fixes during installation. If installing on a Terminal Server, make sure to use Install Mode (see below) so that the settings are rolled out to all users.
If you have not worked it out by now, based on my series of Tweets, Posts and Status Updates, I am soon heading off on another Epic Trip to the United States of America and Mexico.
I have to leave home at about 3AM on Friday morning to catch my first flight. This is the second Epic Trip following a similar plan to last year’s Epic Trip.
A couple of days ago GP Power Tools turned ten years old.
On the 30th August 2006, I decided to create a tool to help identify the cause of a non-reproducible error that was the issue reported in a long running, escalated support case.
This was the first build of the “MBS Support Debugging Tool“.
The first build of GP Power Tools (Build 20) was released at the start of August 2015 and so we are now into the second year of its release.
This means that the early adopters of GP Power Tools are approaching their subscription expiry dates and some customers are now receiving warning messages about their subscription.