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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

Fun with dialogs


Several dialog boxes open at various times throughout Dynamics GP. Some of these dialogs are hard to understand while others are simply a nuisance. Using VBA, you can change the text of a dialog, automatically answer the dialog before it is presented, or monitor your user's response to a dialog.

BeforeModalDialog

The BeforeModalDialog event is a window event that executes when a modal dialog opens but before it is visible to the user. This event is useful if you want to change the wording of a dialog or automatically answer it. You could also complete other actions based on which dialog was being displayed, such as setting the value of variables.

You can have a lot of fun with this event by customizing dialogs for individual users.

The following dialog is a prime candidate for you to dismiss using this event:

The following code will check the text of the dialog, and if it matches, will automatically push the Add button. The Batch Entry window will open and the user will never...