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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Reporting - Second Edition

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Reporting - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Reporting
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Comparing the Dynamics GP Reporting Tools Against Different Reporting Challenges
Index

Considerations for upgrading Analysis Cubes for Excel


Unlike many other components of Dynamics GP 2013, Microsoft does not offer an efficient upgrade path for users who must migrate their cubes from a GP 2010 to a GP 2013 environment. As we saw earlier in this chapter, Analysis Cubes for Excel touches many different areas of SQL Server and as such, Microsoft appears to have found it easier to suggest that users simply install the latest version of Analysis Cubes for Excel for the new GP 2013 environment. While this should be relatively easy to do, especially after having read this chapter, it does mean that if you had previously applied customizations to your GP 2010 cube environment, you now have to manually reapply all of those changes to the new cube environment. As we suggested earlier in this chapter, hopefully you kept a list of these changes. If you haven't been maintaining a list of changes, then now is a good time to start documenting those changes so you'll be prepared for the...