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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

Summary


This chapter focused on the wide variety of enhancements you can create without any coding. You created animated SmartList objects that allowed your users to navigate to other windows and forms by merely clicking on a selected line item. You created Drill Down instances that could integrate Dynamics GP with any program that can accept hyperlinks.

Your SmartList objects morphed into Excel reports that you could link to live company databases. Now you can have refreshable spreadsheets that you only need to format once. You created data connections that you could use in any Microsoft Office application.

Beyond reporting, you moved into creating new windows that melded seamlessly into the Dynamics GP user interface. You created windows that could stand alone, such as the new Event Maintenance window, as well as support windows, such as the Customer Contact window and the Line Item Notes windows. These supplemental windows became a part of your standard user experience as if they had been...