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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

Chapter 7. Creating Customizations with Modifier

In this chapter, you'll learn how to build a customization using the Modifier tool. The full name of the module is Modifier with VBA. In this chapter, however, we will cover only the Modifier component; in Chapter 8, Creating Customizations with VBA, we will add the VBA component.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

  • How the Modifier tool fits into the development environment

  • How to modify windows and window properties

  • How to change global resources

Using Modifier, you can customize forms from any dictionary in the application. You can make global changes to pictures, strings, and formats that affect the entire application, including third-party products. The things you can do with the Modifier provide a method to create new fields, remove existing fields, rearrange fields, and change the tab order of fields on a window.

You cannot create any actions in your customization with Modifier alone. Chapter 8 will explore how to...