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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

Scrolling windows


Scrolling windows are everywhere! You find them on lookup windows, line items on invoices, line items on purchase orders, distribution screens, kit components, accounting periods, units of measure, they're everywhere! Very often, when you are working with a scrolling window, you are working with a range. If you are making a list of those things to really master when working with Dexterity, ranges are number one, scrolling windows are number two.

First, what is a scrolling window? Simply put, it is the grid on a window. It usually presents itself as rows and columns, but it has much more ability than that. We have been told that a Dexterity scrolling window is like nothing else. You cannot compare it with VB, Java, COBOL, nothing.

Scrolling windows come in three flavors:

  • BrowseOnly

  • Editable

  • AddsAllowed

Before we delve into the different scrolling window sections, let's go over some characteristics common to them all. The following screenshot shows a typical scrolling window...