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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

Keeping the chart of accounts clean by reactivating Account Segment warnings


When creating a new account, where user keys in a segment without an associated description, they get an informational message providing the opportunity to add a description. Included in that informational message, the choice Do not display this message again, is the option to turn off the message:

Once this box is checked for a user, the feature to allow the entry of a segment description on the fly is completely disabled for that user.

Since Microsoft does not include a switch to turn this feature back on, administrators will need to hack their way through some simple SQL code to make this available again.

How to do it…

To re-enable Account Segment warnings, follow these steps:

  1. Open Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and connect to the SQL Server used for Dynamics GP. Use either a username and password or Windows authentication to connect.

  2. Because of the way that security is implemented between Dynamics GP and SQL...