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Dynamics GP Drill Down Protocol Handler error
When using drill-downs in Dynamics GP the following error message may occur, A error has occurred trying to process your url.To fix this error and solve the problem read on…The error is displayed in...
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Bug with Address Name in SOP Entry of Dynamics GP 2015R2
We found on this issue, setting the ship to address from the main SOP entry window in our production Dynamics GP does not pull the correct field from the Ship To Address Name of the address book record...
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Enterprise Software Podcast
If you are involved in ERP software, no matter what vendor, then the Enterprise Software Podcast is a good aggregator of news and views on the ERP software market. Informative and usually quite...
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GPUG Summit 2016 Tampa USA - Part 1
To Tampa, 22hrs door – doorI printed my plastic GPUG Summit 2016 luggage tag and was ready to travel. The flight itinerary was from Newcastle in United Kingdom where I live, to London, then to Miami...
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GPUG Summit 2016 Tampa USA - Part 2
Microsoft had the Ice Hockey Arena booked for at 2pm for a launch of Dynamics 365, so I had the morning, I headed out first thing and discovered that the hotel offers a free shuttle bus to anywhere...
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GPUG Summit 2016 Tampa USA - Part 3
Microsoft at the area on the previous day (day zero), was a controversial late add-on to Summit. It was now day one of summit “proper”, after intros from Bob, Errol Shoenfish took to the stage and...
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GPUG Summit 2016 Tampa USA - Part 4
I got invited to be interviewed by the Enterprise Software Podcast. As a listener for some time now, I couldn’t turn the offer down…While at summit, there were a couple of particular presenters that I...
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GPUG Summit 2016 Tampa USA - Part 5
Sadly Last Summit Day started with a last walk into the conference centre along the river walk with its art works, miniature trams and other artefacts along the way.Today Bob starts the day off...
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Dynamics GP - Arithmetic overflow error converting IDENTITY to data type int
Anyone who looks at raw Dynamics GP tables is familiar with this column DEX_ROW_ID that occurs on most of them. It is an identity column, it auto increments an integer for each new record inserted. In...
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Dynamics 365 Financials - Dynamics GP Migration Extension
Had a quick play with the migration tooling for Dynamics GP to Dynamics 365 Financials today, but failed pretty quickly with the lack of a data export option in GP. Here is where I got to:In Dynamics...
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Enforcing field level security in Dynamics GP
Field level security is a great feature in GP for securing a field or form, however I have seen the admin form confuse normal IT admin staff, or simply mistakes being made leading to some users not...
View ArticleBeware diacritic characters where integrating with SQL
I’m certain you all know the above and practice it regularly. First a little background…In Dynamics GP we wrote a very basic “CRM like” system using a .NET GP Addin, that lays over the top of the SOP...
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Extender–you do not have access to open this window
You might have this problem where Dynamics GP claims “you do not have access to open this window”. The extender manual tells the basics of setting up security for extender to allow access to windows,...
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Financial Elementz export to Excel crashing Dynamics GP
User reported that Microsoft GP crashed with “Microsoft Dynamics GP has stopped working”. This occurred when attempting to export the Financial Elementz window Receivables Transaction Analysis to...
View ArticleOld SQL habits
With each new version of SQL server some old SQL habits have to die.In Dynamics GP we often find document numbering sequences that are padded with zeros to facilitate sorting/ordering and to “look...
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Lookup Dynamics GP install location from registry key
You should never assume that Dynamics GP has been installed in the default location. Almost always it will be, but sooner or later you will find a site or development machine where it is different. It...
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Puzzle of the negative bin quantities in Dynamics GP
Since going live with multiple binning there have been niggles with with bin quantity errors. Until today I had assumed it was our bespoke fulfilment or other bespoke processes causing the...
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Dynamics GP Document attachments “i” and “d” check box columns
A question came up on the GP forums today regarding the "i" and "d" column check boxes in the Dynamics GP document attachment management window and specifically what they are there for.Luckily I got...
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SQL server FILESTREAM for Dynamics GP file attachments in coattachitems -is...
In previous post (Managing document attachments in Dynamics GP) I looked at the attachments feature in Dynamics GP 2013-R2 and above. I talked about how files attached to GP in this manner are stored...
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Document attach feature Dynamics GP database and BusObjKey formats
I’ve been working on an archive project recently where I’ve been archiving records from GP into another archive database. This meant looking at how attachments are handled in Dynamics GP, in order to...
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