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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

Chapter 8. Creating Customizationswith VBA

This chapter will introduce you to the basics of building customizations for Dynamics GP with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). You will get a feel for how you can enhance the functionality of Dynamics GP windows. You will learn how to work with multiple dictionaries within your VBA project. This chapter will also introduce how you can change field values, populate data fields, and store and retrieve additional data from a special table in the company database.

Key points in this chapter include the following:

  • How to work with windows and window fields

  • The special characteristics of scrolling windows

  • How to read and manipulate modal dialogs

  • How to store and retrieve data using the Dynamic User Object Store

  • Important considerations when deploying Modifier/VBA customizations