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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

Summary


You now have a pretty good understanding of the Modifier tool and all that you can do with it. You had opportunities to work hands-on with the product, and see for yourself how it works. You made several changes to the windows themselves, even adding fields and pictures. You learned the secret of how to set the big line item boundary properly, add fields from the AutoLink table, and even learned how to properly line up the column labels. You made tons of changes to the window fields themselves, including changing the static text attached to checkboxes and adding tooltips.

Beyond windows, you learned how to make changes to global resources that affect the entire application. You can even add new pictures to the picture library!

In the next chapter, we are going to add the VBA component to the Modifier, and turn our changes into action-capable objects.