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How to add Item Category Long Descriptions to reports using the Support Debugging Tool

May 23, 2011 Tagged with Advanced Topic, Dexterity, Report Writer, Support, Support Debugging Tool 7 Comments

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

I am currently working on a support case where the customer is making use of the six user defined categories for items. That in itself is nothing remarkable or worth blogging about. However, they are using Long Description field on the Item Category Setup window and wished to include the data from this field onto reports. That’s the difficult bit.

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Accessing Internet Information from Report Writer

May 10, 2011 Tagged with Dexterity, Report Writer, RW Functions 16 Comments

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

Last week, I had a call from a partner asking how could they access data stored on the Internet Information window.

This is the window opened with the little italic i symbol next to the Address ID field for Company, Customer, Employee and Vendor Addresses as well as next to Employee ID and Salesperson ID fields.

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Keeping Word Templates in synch with Report Writer

May 5, 2011 Tagged with Dave Dusek, GP 2010, NDM, Report Writer, Word Templates 18 Comments

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

If you are working with a specific report in report writer, and you are also using a word template to print the report, one thing that you have to keep in mind is that the report writer fields have to be in synch with the content controls on the word template. If they are not in synch what happens is that nothing will print in the content control on the word template, not even XX’s. So you need to go through a process to get the report writer report synched up with the word template. Here is that process.

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Report Prints Incorrectly When Choosing the PDF File Format As The Report Destination

May 1, 2011 Tagged with Allan Cahill, NDM, PDF Writer, Report Writer 6 Comments

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

I recently worked on a PDFWriter printing incident with a Customer and we ran into a format problem when choosing the PDF File format.

The Problem

Since performing an upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010, the Customer was having an issue when printing a single page invoice, in this instance, the SOP Blank Invoice Form. When choosing the PDF file format as the report destination, the invoice was splitting over 2 pages for a single page invoice i.e. the standard report prints with the vertical lines extended past the border in the footer or with the Customer’s modified report, the page is moved up and report was splitting to multiple pages.

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Word Templates will not print to screen

Apr 24, 2011 Tagged with Dave Dusek, GP 2010, NDM, Report Writer, Word Templates 1 Comment

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

A common scenario that has been happening more and more is that a customer is trying to print out a word template just to the screen and the template won’t print. You will get a window called “Report Processing Status” and the report will be there and it will list a status of “In Progress” and it just won’t ever print. Another symptom of this issue is if you go to the Report Template Maintenance window and select a template and click Modify. You will get an error “File not found” and it will give the path to the template.

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Word Template Debugging

Apr 5, 2011 Tagged with Dave Dusek, GP 2010, NDM, Report Writer, Word Templates 7 Comments

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

Recently, I have been looking a lot of Word Template cases – I’m the primary Escalation Engineer on that feature. Since Word Templates are new to GP 2010, I want to get some blog articles written on some of the common issues we are running into. So this will probably be a series of Word Template posts.

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Printing the same Current Amount value on the RM Statement Reprint as on the original RM Statement

Feb 24, 2011 Tagged with Application, Marian Verzosa, NDM, Report Writer 3 Comments

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

Hi everyone.

I wanted to share with you a recent support incident that I worked on. The cause of the issue was one of those weird issues that took a while to track down.

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Working with Vertical Lines in Report Writer

Feb 16, 2011 Tagged with Best Practice, Customizations, Report Writer 5 Comments

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

If you have ever used the SOP Blank Invoice Form or the POP Purchase Order Blank Form in Microsoft Dynamics GP, you will have seen the vertical lines on the report which make up the boxes around the various sections of the report. This article explains how those vertical lines work and how to easily make changes to them.

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Adding more comments to SOP Documents

Feb 2, 2011 Tagged with Report Writer, RW Functions, Word Templates 15 Comments

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

In keeping with my recent theme of Microsoft Dynamics GP Report Writer related articles, I thought I would post an example of how to get more comment lines showing a SOP Document. This is a follow on from the Working with Text fields in Report Writer post.

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Working with Text fields in Report Writer

Jan 13, 2011 Tagged with Dexterity, Report Writer, RW Functions 4 Comments

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

This post will explain what is and is not possible when working with fields of text datatype in the Microsoft Dynamics GP Report Writer.

The text field datatype in Dexterity allows multi-line text to be entered up to a maximum length of 32,000 characters. A shorter keyable length maybe defined when the field is defined in Dexterity.

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