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Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications

By : Leslie Vail
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Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications

By: Leslie Vail

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics GP is a sophisticated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application with a multitude of features and options. Microsoft Dynamics GP can also be used to develop dynamic, mission critical applications. In "Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications" you will learn how to create and customize Dynamics GP Applications. This hands-on guide will take you through the initial steps of setting up a development environment through to customizing and developing an example application using tools such as Dexterity, VSTools and sanScript. "Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications" will take you through the complex steps of creating and customizing Microsoft Dynamics GP applications. Starting with an overview of Microsoft Dynamics GP architecture you'll then move onto setting up your development environment. You will learn how to make your application come to life with Dexterity and sanScript. You will create table operations and ranges as well as object triggers to make powerful and practical business applications. You will deploy your Dexterity solution before moving onto customization with Modifier and VBA. This book will also take you through ways of enhancing and extending your application without code using the SmartList Builder and Excel Report Builder. Using these highly flexible tools you'll be able to create data connections that will increase the usability and functionality of your ERP applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications
Credits
About the Author
Index

Extender and Builder(s)


Upgrading applications you created with Extender, SmartList Builder, or Excel Report Builder is simpler than updating a VBA project.

Somebody else, say Microsoft, will work out any code problems with the functionality of the actual Extender or Builder modules themselves!

Your job is to check the dataset delivered by your SmartList objects or Excel reports, and make sure your Go Tos go to the right place. Test your Extender windows to make sure they open at the right time, the conditions work, the linked tables work, and the fields show up in a SmartList object.

Extender

More specifically, for Extender, you need to examine the GP windows that you have used with your Extender windows to make sure that there weren't any changes that might affect your customization. You can use the SDK, as explained in an earlier section, to discover any changes.

For example, if you are using a field on the Customer Maintenance window to determine which Window Group window(s) should open,...