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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

Overview


You will create a window named Customer Contact Maintenance in which you will enter the contact information, as well as create a new table and other resources needed to get the job done. You will also create the Customer Contact Lookup window that you will open from the Contact ID field. To get your new window to open, you will add a menu item to the native Dynamics GP Customer Maintenance window.

The completed Customer Contact Maintenance window will be similar to the following screenshot:

The completed Customer Contacts lookup window will be similar to the following screenshot:

First, you will create a new workset and then create your base resources.

Workset

Recall that a workset is just a group of shortcuts to certain resources so that you might access them more quickly. Worksets really come in handy when navigating a large dictionary, and your development dictionary would certainly be considered large.

To create a workset, select the Workset button, identified in the following screenshot...