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Add Item option in POP and SOP

There are many little options in Dynamics GP which goes unnoticed most of the time. One such option is the Add Item option which is available under Options menu in the Sales Transaction Entry window.      So when the user enters a line item number which does not exist in the system, if this option [...]

September 28, 2011 · veeyeskay · 3 Comments
Tags: , , ,  Â· Posted in: Dynamics, Great Plains, Professional Services Tools, Purchase Order Processing, Sales Order Processing Total Views: 161

Account Level Security and Creating New GL Accounts

When you have Account Level Security enabled for a company, you would have come across the error message shown below, when we try to add a new account number and tab off the account number field. This is because new GL accounts can be created ONLY by a user who has access to all GL [...]

September 18, 2011 · veeyeskay · 3 Comments
Tags: , , , , ,  Â· Posted in: Dynamics, General Ledger, Great Plains Total Views: 199

Indicator to specify single page or multi page customer statements

Recently, I was assisting a forum user, who had requested an option to provide a visual indicator in the footer of the customer statement report, which indicates if the statement has a single page or multiple pages. After a little thought I had come up with this idea and replied back to the forum user [...]

September 17, 2011 · veeyeskay · 2 Comments
Tags: , , , , , , , , ,  Â· Posted in: Accounts Receivables, Dynamics, Great Plains, Reporting Total Views: 78

Bank Reconciliation and Voided Checks

Recently, I was addressing a discussion in the forums, where a user was seeing voided checks in the Bank Reconciliation window. The user also mentioned that he never used to see voided checks appearing in the Bank Reconciliation window, but it appeared and when he was selecting the check, it gave him an error message [...]

September 16, 2011 · veeyeskay · 4 Comments
Tags: , , ,  Â· Posted in: Bank Reconciliation, Dynamics, Great Plains Total Views: 343

Could not load external DexIsODBCsqlDriver@GPDWIN32.dll

This article is to post a troubleshooting tip for the above error. When you try to launch Dexterity in the Debug >> Test Mode in Microsoft Dexterity v11, you might get the error as shown below. When we click on the OK Button, the login window opens blank as shown below. The error is because [...]

September 6, 2011 · veeyeskay · 4 Comments
Tags: , , , ,  Â· Posted in: Customizations, Dexterity, Dynamics, Great Plains Total Views: 96

Support Debugging Tool Customization #6 – Removing Voided Documents from Customer Statement

Based on a recent support request, I have decided to post yet another article which utilizes the Support Debugging Tool to achieve the above requirement, where in the voided documents do not appear in the Customer Statement. For this requirement, I have customized the RM Statement On Blank Paper version of the Customer Statement. The [...]

August 18, 2011 · veeyeskay · 2 Comments
Tags: , , ,  Â· Posted in: Accounts Receivables, Customizations, Dynamics, Great Plains, Support Debugging Tool Total Views: 116

Reporting Ledgers and Fixed Asset Depreciations

Recently, I was assisting a support request where one of our clients were trying to read the window help for the GL Posting window in Fixed Assets in Dynamics GP 2010. The window help was referencing a field called Selected Books, but this field was not visible to them at run time. This is because [...]

August 17, 2011 · veeyeskay · 2 Comments
Tags: , , , ,  Â· Posted in: Dynamics, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Great Plains Total Views: 237

History for Budget Transactions in Dynamics GP 2010 R2

Once you install Dynamics GP 2010, if you go to the General Ledger Setup, the following options will automatically have the history options marked. Accounts Transactions However, the history option for Budget Transactions is not automatically checked and because of this default setting, the system does not maintain a history of the budget transactions posted [...]

August 16, 2011 · veeyeskay · One Comment
Tags: , , , ,  Â· Posted in: Budget Transactions, Dynamics, General Ledger, Great Plains Total Views: 61

Screen Output Magnification Defaults

There was a support request on the forum today, where the user was questioning the setup from where the default zoom for screen outputs in GP is picked up from. There is a setting the Dex.ini file which determines the Screen Output Magnification Default. It is MagnifyScreenOutput. Depending on the value defined for this parameter, [...]

August 13, 2011 · veeyeskay · 2 Comments
Tags: ,  Â· Posted in: Dex.ini, Dynamics, Great Plains, System Total Views: 87

Selling Options in Item Price List Maintenance

I was recently assisting a customer who was getting the following error when trying to enter a quantity in the Sales Transaction Entry window for a specific item. This message is because of an Selling Option setup which is defined for the specific item and unit of measurement in the Item Price List Maintenance window. [...]

August 12, 2011 · veeyeskay · 2 Comments
Tags: , , , , , , , ,  Â· Posted in: Dynamics, Great Plains, Inventory, Sales Order Processing Total Views: 122