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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 forms and windows


Forms can contain windows, tables, menus, constants, scripts, and commands. Every screen you see in Dynamics GP belongs to a form. You need two forms for your customer contact application. Each form will contain a single window.

Maintenance form and window creation

The first form will hold the Customer Contact Maintenance window; the second form will hold the Contact Lookup window.

You're going to create the Customer Contact Maintenance form and window in a rather unconventional way. Instead of using the WYSIWYG graphical forms designer to create the form, you are going to copy an existing form, change its name, and then modify it.

The form you're going to use is the RM_Customer_Address form , because it most closely resembles the form you need. Find this form by selecting Forms in the Resources tree of the Resource Explorer window. Look in the Resources list and select the form named RM_Customer_Address. With the form selected (do not double-click, you do not want...