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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

Changing or adding functionality


What's the point of creating an integrating application if you can't sneak in some extra functionality? Building a user interface is nice, but the real power is in making those new buttons do something when they are pushed. Enter the tools you can use to change the way Dynamics GP behaves. You may want to change the way the software currently accomplishes something, or add a brand-new talent to its list of abilities.

The tools highlighted in this section are capable of adding to or altering the Dynamics GP business logic:

  • Dexterity

  • VS Tools

  • Modifier with VBA

  • Continuum

  • eXtender Enterprise

Dexterity

Dexterity uses the sanScript scripting language to create Dynamics GP logic.

sanScript is an event-driven language. When the events occur, whether initiated by the user or through code, scripts attached to those events are executed. Scripts can be attached to forms, windows, fields, and scrolling windows.

For the forms and windows that you have created, sanScript code will...