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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

Deploying a Modifier/VBA customization


Modifier/VBA customizations are very easy to deploy. You export your customizations into a .package file and then import the package file into each of the receiving workstations. You cannot put .vba files on a shared drive like you can for reports; each workstation must have its own set of .vba files.

Creating package files

To create a package file, go to the Customization Maintenance window using the following navigation:

Microsoft Dynamics GP | Tools | Customize | Customization Maintenance

On the Customization Maintenance window, highlight those customizations you want to distribute and click on Export. You can highlight several at a time using the Shift and Ctrl buttons on your keyboard:

You can see what kind of customization is listed by looking at the Type column. The Product column tells you from which dictionary the objects originated.

When you create your package file keep in mind that you cannot pick and choose which customizations you import...