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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

Overview of Dexterity


When developing integrated applications using Dexterity, you will be working with a copy of the actual Dynamics GP dictionary. You will have access to all of the preexisting resources, except the scripts, and can re-use them in your application.

While it is possible to change existing Dynamics GP forms and reports and use them in your application as alternate forms and reports, best practices dictate that you should avoid creating alternate forms and reports because of the tremendous amount of work you might be saddling yourself with to maintain them. For example, with each new release of Dynamics GP, you quite possibly will need to recreate these resources from scratch.

In addition, you will be limiting your users because they can only use one alternate of the same form at a time. If two developers modify the same form, somebody's functionality will lose.

Components of Dexterity

Several files are used together to create a Dexterity application. This section briefly describes...