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Winthrop Development Consultants is taking part in the upcoming GP Demo Day by The ISV Society on 28th May 2025 at 1:00pm (US Eastern Time).
Join us and see how the new GP Power Tools Form Control module helps you adapt Microsoft Dynamics GP to your exact business needs—with little to no code.
Want to learn how to get the most out of GP Power Tools? Discover all the benefits 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 Orlando, Florida, USA.
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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.
Update now to the latest builds for your version of Microsoft Dynamics GP.
This article provides advanced warning that old builds of Winthrop Development Consultants products for versions GP 18.0. or later will be discontinued at the end of August 2025 and will no longer be able to renew their subscriptions.
It is vital the customers update their installs of our products to get all the new fixes, features and enhancements that their annual subscription entitles them to.
With the release of GP Power Tools Build 31 including the new “No Code/Low Code” Customization Form Control Module, Winthrop Development Consultants are offering a discount on the annual subscription fees to all customers who have the entire suite of modules.
Now is the time to ensure that you are running the latest build of GP Power Tools on your system AND ensure your subscription includes all the modules available.
I have been meaning to write this article for quite a while. The Batch Posting Service Toolkit (BPST) is a product created by Winthrop Development Consultants to provide a variety of methods for posting, maintaining, transferring batches, etc.
The API’s (Application Programming Interface) can be called externally as a Service Based Architecture (SBA) Web Service (for GP 2015 or later), or from inside the Microsoft Dynamics GP application using Dexterity, Visual Studio Tools (via C# or VB.Net) or via GP Power Tools.
The Batch Posting Service Toolkit is exactly that, a toolkit designed to be called by a developer and so it does not have an interface (except for testing the API). However, you can use the Scheduling functionality in GP Power Tools to post batches on a scheduled basis, read on for more details ….
Scheduling or automating tasks in Microsoft Dynamics GP is a common request, so this example demonstrates a method that can be used to run any process on a scheduled or automated basis using GP Power Tools.
The specific example we will be using is running an Inventory Item Reconcile on items that have been flagged as needing reconciliation. This code was developed in conjunction with Arthur Achilleos, who has agreed for it to be published.
A recent GP Power Tools customization project for Microsoft Dynamics GP which I assisted a customer to create, ensures that a GL Account Number is entered on each line of a Purchase Order Transaction.
The customer for which this project created for has allowed it to be published on the blog to benefit anyone else who would like similar functionality.
Using the GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module for customization is a great method of automating processes in Microsoft Dynamics GP as well as customizing behavior to meet the requirements of your business.
Many customers are also using GP Power Tools to replace Visual Basic for Applications now that it is “End of Life” and unsupported.
I was recently asked how to hide a window opened and closed as part of an automation using GP Power Tools. This article explains the techniques you can use to open a window as hidden.
GP Power Tools build 30.2 added a feature to check the installed SQL Server version against the minimum supported version, as per the published System Requirements for Microsoft Dynamics GP, and will warn on login if the version of SQL Server does not meet the minimum system requirements.
Build 31.4 of GP Power Tools was released on 06-Dec-2024. This build fixes and enhances some features from the Build 31.3 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, but we have also discontinued old builds primarily because of the Security Vulnerability discovered and fixed in August 2022.