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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

The Dynamic User Object Store


It is likely that your customization will involve collecting additional data. The common scenario is that you add additional fields using the Modifier and then you use VBA to store that data. However, where will you store it?

While you could create your own tables, there may be an easier method. The company database includes a table called the Dynamics User Object Store or DUOS table. The DUOS table is a powerful object that is woefully underused. Over the next few pages, you will learn how to store additional data without adding any tables to your database.

Architecture

The DUOS object is comprised of the DUOSObjects collection, the DUOSObject object, the DUOSProperties collection, and the DUOSProperty object.

The DUOSObjects collection is essentially a user-created set of data. You define the collection and can have as many collections as you wish. Common collections include customer, vendor, item, or employee. Inside the DUOSObjects collection is the DUOSObject...