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VBA – Determine if the Caps Lock button is enabled on Password entry

Jul 22, 2009 Tagged with Advanced Topic, NDM, Passwords, Patrick Roth, VBA 6 Comments

This is a reposting of an article Patrick Roth originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

With password policies in place in Dynamics 10.0 RTM, it was easy to be able for your user to ‘lock themselves out’ after a mistyped password or two.

Because Dynamics GP doesn’t give you any kind of warning that the Caps Lock key is enabled, the user wouldn’t necessarily notice this is the real issue and not a typo and all of a sudden you are locked out.

Developing For Dynamics GP

Any Font in the Dexterity Script Editor

Jul 5, 2009 Tagged with Dex.ini, Dexterity, Fonts, Fun, NDM, Patrick Roth 2 Comments

This is a reposting of an article Patrick Roth originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Aren’t secrets fun? And while having a secret is fun in and of itself, it is also fun to share them from time to time (and allowed to share them).

The secret today is an undocumented feature that I believe was added to 10.0 SP2. As an undocumented feature, this means:

It might not work for you
It might cause “issues”
Don’t ask support about it if it causes “issues”
Might not work in the future

That said:

I can’t see why it wouldn’t work
I don’t see what issues it would cause and is completely reversible

Developing For Dynamics GP

Drag and drop into folders in the 10.0 Navigation/shortcut window

Mar 19, 2009 Tagged with Application, Dexterity, NDM, Patrick Roth 2 Comments

This is a reposting of an article Patrick Roth originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

A question was posted to the newsgroups recently that reminded me that I had also run into the same situation previously.

I was trying to drag a shortcut into a folder that I had also created and it wouldn’t drag & drop for me in my Dynamics GP 10.0. I went back to 9.0 and had no issue doing this but it just wouldn’t work in 10.0.

Developing For Dynamics GP

Dexterity: Creating custom ini files

Mar 15, 2009 Tagged with Dex.ini, Dexterity, NDM, Patrick Roth No Comments

This is a reposting of an article Patrick Roth originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

One question that I’ve been asked a few times in the past has been – “Can I read/write to other sections of the Dex.ini other than the [General] section with Dexterity?”.

Here I presume the questioner would like to have their own section of the dex.ini file to write their own application settings instead of mixing them into the settings that Dynamics GP uses.

Developing For Dynamics GP

Customizations that you do not need to do

Jan 27, 2009 Tagged with Customizations, Modifier, NDM, Patrick Roth, VBA 4 Comments

This is a reposting of an article Patrick Roth originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Having supported the various customization tools over the years, you run into common requests again and again. Something that often surprises me is that you get requests to ‘customize’ Dynamics GP to make it do something and as it turns out Dynamics GP already does this out of the box.

Developing For Dynamics GP

Dexterity: Accessing a form menu from a global script

Dec 30, 2008 Tagged with Dexterity, Menu, NDM, Patrick Roth 3 Comments

This is a reposting of an article Patrick Roth originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Every so often, a developer might need to check or set the status of a form level menu item. Say, for instance, the goal would be to make sure that the “Add Item” menu item of the Sales Transaction Entry Options menu was checked.

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VBA – Determine if the Caps Lock button is enabled on Password entry

Any Font in the Dexterity Script Editor

Drag and drop into folders in the 10.0 Navigation/shortcut window

Dexterity: Creating custom ini files

Customizations that you do not need to do

Dexterity: Accessing a form menu from a global script