GP 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.
GP 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.
GP 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.
In just two weeks’ time my wife, Jennifer, and I will be flying from Perth via Sydney and Dallas/Fort Worth to San Antonio, Texas, USA for two weeks at the Community Summit 2024 conference.
During the first week (Monday 7th to Friday 11th October 2024), I will be running Dexterity Fundamentals training at the San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk hotel. Then on Sunday 13th October, I will be running Academy training for GP Power Tools.
Once the conference starts, please come see us at Expo Booth 1425. Read on for more information on the two training classes and seven sessions I am presenting.
Form 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.
Form 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.
Form 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.
Form 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.
Something that is always a question when adding an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) add on product to Microsoft Dynamics GP is whether it negatively affects performance.
The short technical answer is always going to be Yes. As any additional code will take time to process. However, the real question is whether the effect on performance is noticeable to users.
Community Summit 2024 in San Antonio, Texas, USA is fast approaching. David Musgrave from Winthrop Development Consultants will be running two extremely valuable training courses and now it is time to register.
The conference will be held on the 13th to 17th October 2024. There will be pre-conference training in the week before, from 7th to 11th October 2024, as well as Academy days before and after the conference itself.
Good News for the Microsoft Dynamics GP Community.
This morning (Perth Time) I had an email from Terry Heley from Microsoft with a link to a pre-release (ISV Drop) of the upcoming Microsoft Dynamics GP version 18.7 (October 2024) release. This download is provided to the ISV community to help them prepare for the final code when it is released.
This is the sixth article in the #GPPT GP Power Tools: What’s in each module series? of articles.
It covers what is included in the Form Control Tools module. This module was added to Build 31 of GP Power Tools and provides “No Code/Low Code” Customization to Microsoft Dynamics GP. It can also replace Field Level Security and work with the Developer Tools module to create customizations across multiple forms, windows and fields.
Winthrop Development Consultants is extremely excited to announce that Build 31 of GP Power Tools (GPPT) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 16-Aug-2024.
This feature packed build includes an entirely new Form Control module offering “No Code/Low Code” customization functionality to Microsoft Dynamics GP, as well as adding Virtual Fields to the Developer Tools module, and a Database Space Recovery tool to the Database Tools modules. The build also includes many enhancements and improvements across the entire product.
This article lists the major new features and enhancements. It won’t list everything but to give you an idea of how much has been added, the user guide manual has grown from 744 pages in build 30 to 833 pages in build 31.
GP Power Tools Build 31 is releasing soon and will be adding amazing new functionality, including a “No Code / Low Code” customization tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP, a method of adding fields directly to windows without needing alternate or modified windows, and a Database Space Recovery tool.
Please read on and register for the webinar hosted by Njevity on Tuesday 20th August 9:00am-10:30am (US Central Time).
If you missed the webinar, the video is included at the bottom of the article.
GP Power Tools has the ability to recreate user SQL logins after a server migration using the Database Validation window, or reset multiple user logins using the SQL Login Maintenance window. Both of these methods can use fixed or randomly generated passwords and have the ability to send emails to users with their new password. Also, changing the user’s password from the User Setup window can send an email.
The wording and formatting of these Password Reset emails can be defined in GP Power Tools by your system administrator. You can even use HTML to format the emails as described in the article below:
To be able to send emails to your users, you need to ensure that GP Power Tools knows the email addresses of the users. They are entered into the User Setup Additional Information window which can be opened from the User Setup window (if it is not set to automatically open). The sample code in this project shows how you can take the data from an Excel spreadsheet with the User ID and Emails of the users and import it from the clipboard directly into GP Power Tools.
GP Power Tools has a powerful feature called Company Login Filter. This feature was created to allow the selection of companies to be controlled based on the application configuration used to launch Microsoft Dynamics GP.
It has a number of other features such as controlling the order of the companies listed and optionally showing the database name for the company, but if configured incorrectly it does have the ability to block access to the application by removing access to all the companies.
This is another “Must Have” free customization example for you Microsoft Dynamics GP system when you have GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module.
When creating new Customer, Vendor and Item cards, it is possible to include certain characters in the ID fields which can cause issues with Microsoft Dynamics GP, its ISV products and integrating products.
Today, we are announcing the release of GP Power Tools Build 30.3. Over the last couple of months, a few issues have been discovered, which have now been fixed. We have also enhanced the functionality of a number of features in the product.
We have also been encouraging our customers to get updated onto the latest builds of our products for their versions 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, but we have also discontinued old builds primarily because of the Security Vulnerability discovered and fixed in August 2022.
I am excited 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 San Antonio, Texas, USA.
The training will be presented as a single full day course on Sunday 13th October 2024, running from 8:00am to 5:00pm with lunch included.
We always have lots of new functionality and enhancements to cover with the release the latest builds of GP Power Tools.
Here is a quick project that can make using Microsoft Dynamics GP much easier for your users. We are going to use GP Power Tools along with the free menu module of Visual Studio Integration Toolkit to add windows to the application level navigation menus.
For our example we are going to use the Professional Services Tools Library and add a menu to the main window of the product as well as the Receivables Transaction Unapply window.
[Edit] We are also going to add the Item Reconciler window as that requires some different techniques.