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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook

By : Mark Polino, Ian Grieve
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook

By: Mark Polino, Ian Grieve

Overview of this book

The latest release of Dynamics GP 2016 offers a powerful, adaptable, and cloud enabled enterprise accounting software solution. The new version has experienced changes in serviced-based architecture, workflow, existing functionalities, and the introduction of plenty of new features. This book will help you get the most out of Dynamics GP quickly and effectively. This book picks up where implementation training leaves off. Whether you are new or experienced, you will find useful recipes to improve the way you use and work with Dynamics GP. The book starts with recipes designed to enhance the usefulness of Microsoft Dynamics GP by personalizing the look and feel of the application. Most of the recipes are designed to give you tips for a typical installation of Dynamics GP, including core financials and distribution modules. The book then moves through recipes that include automating Dynamics GP to allow users or administrators to focus on value adding tasks, connecting Dynamics GP to Microsoft Office, exposing hidden features in Dynamics GP, PowerBI, and much more!
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Developing connections with Internet User Defined fields


Dynamics GP provides a built-in set of Internet fields for users to enter information such as web pages, e-mail addresses, and FTP sites. What many people don't know is that these are actually user-defined fields and can be changed by an administrator, which allows a firm to add a second email address or remove the FTP link if they want to. In this recipe, we'll look at how to customize these fields.

It is important to keep in mind, when setting up Internet User Defined fields, that these settings affect all the Internet User Defined field names attached to address IDs assigned to a company, customers, employees, items, salespeople, and vendors.

How to do it…

Customizing Internet User Defined fields is easy, so let's take a look at how to do it. For our example, we'll add the social networking service Twitter as a new label:

  1. Select Administration from the Navigation pane. Under the Setup option and Company headers in the Administration...