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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

Modifying the user interface


Don't like what you see? Change it. Despite the number of hours the fine people at Microsoft spent designing the user interface of Dynamics GP, sometimes changes are necessary. The changes may be purely cosmetic, such as adding a company logo to the window, or they may bring with them additional functionality, such as creating an XML document of the displayed record.

The question at hand is, which of the tools that we just discussed can you use to make a change to the user interface. Tools having the capability of modifying the user interface include:

  • Dexterity

  • VS Tools

  • Modifier with VBA

  • Extender and eXtender Enterprise

Dexterity

Using Dexterity you can change any existing window by creating an Alternate Form (window) to be used in place of the original. You start with the original window as a base and then make modifications to suit your needs.

Note

Modifications should only be additive; removing any of the existing controls will break the Dynamics GP application.

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