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Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications

By : Leslie Vail
Book Image

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

Working with window fields


In order to finish the layout of your two windows you need to know how to put static text on the window and how to link prompts and lookups.

Adding static text

Static text includes any words you see on the window that are not data fields. The value never changes, hence the word static. The most obvious static text is a field prompt. Some static text is identified on the following screenshot:

To type text on a window, use the toolbox button with the letter A on it.

Push the button and then click on the window where you want to add or modify text. When the cursor changes to a flashing vertical line and the mouse pointer is shaped as an I bar, you are ready to type.

Column headings

To complete your lookup window, you need column headings. The column headings are actually static text on the host window, not the scrolling window. In order to know where to place the headings, you need to uncheck the Show Field Names option. Open the layout menu to access the Show Field Names...