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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

Table creation routines


The tables used by your application are not automatically created. Back in the Pervasive PSQL 2000 and FairCom ctree Plus days, the table was created automatically the first time you accessed it. SQL doesn't work that way. If you try to use the application without creating your tables, you will get an error message similar to the one shown in the following screenshot. The message will not be displayed until the system tries to access one of your tables:

Likewise, if the table exists but its structure does not match the table definition in your application, you will receive the following error:

The More Info button provides the reason your application could not access the SQL data; namely, there was a column in the Dexterity table definition that did not exist in the physical table:

Your job now is to provide an easy way for your user to create the SQL Tables and *zdp procedures required by your application, to grant permissions to those tables, and to bind the default...