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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

Completing the application


To complete an application is to stand back and make sure it's tight. To make sure you have followed the user interface design standards and to really look at the application from the user's point of view. This section will help you begin to develop your own completion checklist.

Forms and windows

Consider each of your windows and be sure you have met the following standards:

Linking your prompts

If you don't link your prompts, you won't get a visual notice of the required fields, hidden prompts when the field is hidden, and grayed-out prompts when they are disabled. This is easy to forget; don't let it happen to you. Refer to the Linked prompts section to aid you in this quest.

To link prompts, select Tools from the menu bar, and then Link Prompt. The Tools menu is shown in the following screenshot:

Linking your lookups

If you don't link your lookups, Ctrl + L will not open the lookup window as it is supposed to. If you have moved your buttons around, this is especially...