This year GP Power Tools turns 20 years’ old, and we will celebrate by releasing Build 33 with many enhancements and new features and some fixes. The release of GP Power Tools Build 33 for Microsoft Dynamics GP v18.4 or later is planned for mid-year, once all the development and documentation is completed.
We are excited to tell you about one of the major new features … Login Control.
Winthrop Development Consultants is fully committed to the continued support of Microsoft Dynamics GP and its ecosystem. Our ISV products are only compatible with Dynamics GP and have been created to solve pain points and missing features as requested by the GP community.
While Microsoft has stated that they will cease support for Dynamics GP in 2031, it is important to note that “End of Support” does not equate to “End of Life”. There is plenty of life left in the product and, with the support of the community, GP will live on well past the official end of support. A driving force in the community support will be the Knights of GP.
Want to learn how to get the most out of GP Power Tools? Discover all the benefits of each module and how you can employ them in your systems? GP Power Tools is the ultimate suite of tools to get the most out of your Microsoft Dynamics GP system, regardless if you are a user, a system admin, a consultant, a developer or a database administrator.
I am pleased to announce that as well as the Dexterity Training (during the week before the conference), there will also be GP Power Tools training offered at Academy at Summit in the days before Community Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
There is always lots of new functionality and enhancements to cover with the release the latest builds of GP Power Tools. It has features that will benefit all users of GP regardless of the level of the technical experience.
Here is an awesome update to the previous sample customization which added 6 Additional Item Category Fields:
This update makes the following improvements, but does need at least Build 32 of GP Power Tools to work:
Over time the amount of data stored by your Microsoft Dynamics GP system can get quite large. Without buying new hardware, there is a simple way to make your system faster and decrease the space used to store your databases.
This is where a couple of the features of the Database Module of GP Power Tools come in to help. This is article 3 of 3 in the series.
Over time the amount of data stored by your Microsoft Dynamics GP system can get quite large. Without buying new hardware, there is a simple way to make your system faster and decrease the space used to store your databases.
This is where a couple of the features of the Database Module of GP Power Tools come in to help. This is article 2 of 3 in the series.
Over time the amount of data stored by your Microsoft Dynamics GP system can get quite large. Without buying new hardware, there is a simple way to make your system faster and decrease the space used to store your databases.
This is where a couple of the features of the Database Module of GP Power Tools come in to help. This is article 1 of 3 in the series.
Build 32.2 of GP Power Tools was released on 02-Dec-2025. This build consolidates fixes and enhances some features from the Build 32.1 release.
We strongly encourage all our customers to stay updated with the latest builds of our products for their version of Microsoft Dynamics GP. We always want our customers on the latest code to get the best experience with all the new features and fixes that their subscription entitles them to.
When GP Power Tools Build 32 was released, it added powerful Custom Table functionality which allows for a developer to create a custom table definition and have that table created in each company automatically. The table can then be used in a similar fashion to a native Dexterity table using a suite of Custom Table Buffer Helper Functions.
This article updates the original article (below), which explained how to create a Custom Forms Module demonstration project, to use Custom Tables instead of SQL Tables for a much faster and simpler implementation.
Welcome to the eleventh article as an update to the series of articles that explains in detail the steps to add a user defined custom field to a window using Modifier, Report Writer and GP Power Tools to add the business logic.
The series should be read in order starting with the introduction article:
In this article we will show how to use Custom Tables (added in Build 32) to store data rather than the DUOS table. In the previous articles we included the Customization Maintenance packages and showed how to use manual SQL tables.
Welcome to the tenth article as an update to the series of articles that explains in detail the steps to add a user defined custom field to a window using Modifier, Report Writer and GP Power Tools to add the business logic.
The series should be read in order starting with the introduction article:
In this article we will show how to use manual SQL tables to store data rather than the DUOS table. In the previous article we included the Customization Maintenance packages. In the following article we will show how to use GPPT Custom Tables (even better than manual SQL tables).
Welcome to the ninth article as an update to the series of articles that explains in detail the steps to add a user defined custom field to a window using Modifier, Report Writer and GP Power Tools to add the business logic.
The series should be read in order starting with the introduction article:
In this article we will provide updates to the project adding the modified window and report to the project. In the following articles we will show how to use manual SQL tables and then GPPT Custom Tables (even better than manual SQL tables).
The next version of Microsoft Dynamics GP has been released, and it contains more new features and bug fixes.
Winthrop Development Consultants has already updated its products for this Microsoft Dynamics GP 18.8 – October 2025 release. They are now built against the final build and so are no longer beta builds.
Check out the previous article for more information:
GP Power Tools Build 32 added Custom Tables as a new feature to the Developer Tools module. Custom Tables can automatically create and maintenance SQL tables in company (or system) databases as defined by the definition in the Custom Tables Setup window.
This is an updated version of the #GPPT Adding Virtual Fields to Item Maintenance project which uses a Custom Table to store the data rather than the DUOS. Easy access to the Custom Tables is provided by a series of Custom Table Buffer Helper Functions which replicate how Dexterity table buffers work.
Are you looking to unlock the full potential of your Dynamics GP system?
Hi, I’m David Musgrave, Managing Director of Winthrop Development Consultants from Perth, Western Australia. I’m thrilled to invite you to the one-day workshop: “Optimizing your system with GP Power Tools” at Summit Academy, on Sunday 19th October.
A little while ago I recorded an MVP Insights podcast with Pam Misialek from Dynamic Communities.
We discussed the future of Microsoft Dynamics GP and the Academy training and sessions I am presenting at Community Sumit 2025 in Orlando, Florida, USA.
In just over a month’s time my wife, Jennifer, and I will be flying from Perth via Sydney and Dallas/Fort Worth to Orlando, Florida, USA for two weeks at the Community Summit 2025 conference.
During the first week (Monday 13th to Friday 17th October 2025), I will be running Dexterity Fundamentals training at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Kissimmee. Then on Sunday 19th October, I will be running Academy training for GP Power Tools.
Once the conference starts, please come see us at Expo Booth 310. Read on for more information on the two training classes and seven sessions I am presenting or assisting with.
A recent customization project I was working on using GP Power Tools required the calculation of a square root as part of some number crunching needed to work out material quantities on a Sales Order Processing transaction.
While Dexterity (the language behind Microsoft Dynamics GP) is great at accounting style mathematics (as per a standard calculator), it does not have advanced functions for powers, logs, and trigonometry (as per a scientific calculator). This means that there is no “native” method to calculate a square root.
However, Dexterity (from v14.0 onwards) has a .Net Interop which allows you to import and call .Net libraries directly from your Dexterity scripts. This example shows how to call the System.Math library as well as other advanced techniques, such as Custom Forms and Virtual Fields.
This is the sixth article in the series on making window fields required. If you have not yet read the introduction article to the series, please read that first:
This example uses GP Power Tools code to make the Tax Registration Number field on the Purchase Order Entry – Purchasing Vendor Detail Entry sub window (separate form) required.
This is the fifth article in the series on making window fields required. If you have not yet read the introduction article to the series, please read that first:
This example uses GP Power Tools code to make the Salesperson ID field on the Sales Transaction Entry – Sales Customer Detail Entry sub window (separate form) required.