David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

There is an unsupported method of copying report formats between reports that is very commonly used (and even recommended by me), but we recently had a case that highlighted a problem with the technique. This blog post will discuss the method and the issue we have seen.

 

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

As a Dexterity developer, I have written a number of customisations to Microsoft Dynamics GP which add additional fields to the system. These additional fields are often have a relationship to existing data in Dynamics GP.

It is quite common to store the additional data in a parallel table (sometimes called companion or shadow table). This is a table having same primary key as an existing table, with the additional fields.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Here is another support case that was resolved simply and quickly using the Support Debugging Tool.

The customer was using Extender to add an additional comment to the inventory stock transfer transaction. They created an Extender ID “ST_COMMENTS” and used the Long String field type in Extender which is a 255 character string. This worked fine.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Following on from yesterday’s post: Quick Tip: Creating Dexterity System Variables, I want to cover a related issue.

This is when a Dexterity developer is creating a report (either new or alternate) which will display data from newly added tables. To get the data to show on the report the developer creates a table relationship from an existing Dynamics table to their newly added table.

Can you spot the problem yet?

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

I had a case a couple of weeks back, where the customer wanted to filter the transactions shown on a Receivables Management Statement. There was one type of transaction that they did not want included on the statements sent out to the customers. The transactions to be excluded could be identified by a particular value on the Description field on the transaction.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

I am working on a Named Printers issue at the moment and thought it would be a good opportunity to put some standard troubleshooting steps on the blog.

Quick history: I originally developed Named Printers back on version 3.0 when I worked for the selling ISV partner, Sequel Technology, and later sold the module to Great Plains Software for version 5.5 and it became part of the core Dynamics.dic code for 6.0.

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