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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

Changing global resources


Global resources are available to all objects in the dictionary. If you change a global resource, you will change each object in the dictionary that uses that resource. You just learned how changing the picture you added to the picture library will change the existing picture on the Master Posting window.

This section describes how to change existing resources using Modifier.

Pictures and native pictures

You learned in the previous section how to change pictures. The method to change native pictures is the same. So what's the difference between a picture and a native picture? A little Dynamics GP history is the root of this difference.

Use Alt + F10 to launch Modifier. Open the Native Pictures window from the menu bar through Resources | Native Pictures.

Open the AboutPictureDynamics item from the Native Pictures window. In the Native Picture Definition window, you will see the Native Picture Name, and a Synchronized With option.

Back when Dynamics GP supported the Mac...