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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

Creating tables and keys


Your project requires two new tables: one in which to store the contacts and another in which to store their phone numbers. Because you would like to create tables with names longer than eight characters (Imagine!), you need to change an option in Dexterity.

Select Edit | Options from the menu bar. In the Table Options section of the Options window, mark the checkbox next to Allow Long Physical Table Names. With this option marked, you can create table names with up to 28 characters.

The 28-character limitation is imposed by Dexterity, not by SQL.

Tables

You will use the Table Definition window to create your tables. In the Resource Explorer window, select the new resource drop-down arrow and then select Table. The Table Definition window will open. A table definition contains the table's name, fields, relationships, and so on.

Customer Contact Master

First, you will create the table for storing the contact information. Leave any fields not mentioned in the following...