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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook

By : Mark Polino, Ian Grieve
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook

By: Mark Polino, Ian Grieve

Overview of this book

The latest release of Dynamics GP 2016 offers a powerful, adaptable, and cloud enabled enterprise accounting software solution. The new version has experienced changes in serviced-based architecture, workflow, existing functionalities, and the introduction of plenty of new features. This book will help you get the most out of Dynamics GP quickly and effectively. This book picks up where implementation training leaves off. Whether you are new or experienced, you will find useful recipes to improve the way you use and work with Dynamics GP. The book starts with recipes designed to enhance the usefulness of Microsoft Dynamics GP by personalizing the look and feel of the application. Most of the recipes are designed to give you tips for a typical installation of Dynamics GP, including core financials and distribution modules. The book then moves through recipes that include automating Dynamics GP to allow users or administrators to focus on value adding tasks, connecting Dynamics GP to Microsoft Office, exposing hidden features in Dynamics GP, PowerBI, and much more!
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Reducing posting steps with better Printing Control


When posting a transaction in Dynamics GP, a series of posting reports print by default. Reports are often set to ask for the type of output (printer, screen, or file) each time. In this scenario, each report opens a window allowing the user to change the report destination when the report is run. This significantly increases the amount of time it takes to simply start the printing process because the user has to make a choice multiple times. This means that it's not uncommon to have eight windows open and four reports print every time a user posts.

With this much mess, users often click through the prompts without actually reading them or they print reports that they don't really need and cancel reports they should print.

There is a better way. Reports can be turned off, routed only to the screen, or sent to file to save several minutes each time transactions are posted. In this recipe we'll see how to control printing during posting. For...