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Bad Power Value from searching on master number in sales transaction...
Searching on the Master Number field in the normal Sales Transactions smart list in Dynamics GP can cause an error to occur. In the following screenshot you can see the search, nothing odd...
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D365 Financials in the UK with VAT (Tax) registration lookup feature
The month of May 2017 has brought Microsoft Dynamics 365 Financials to the UK market, in preview. Maybe Microsoft saw my blog post from 2013 about enabling VAT lookup in Dynamics GP and applied the...
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Finding build version number in Dynamics 365 for Financials
Use the search feature to locate the window by typing “information” into the search box:You need to open the “System information” window that holds the version number for Dynamics 365 for...
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Dynamics GP–Clicking “on order” in inventory enquiry shows blank empty with...
Seen this from three users recently. The issue is that the user clicks the on order hyperlink text in item enquiry to see the purchase orders in Purchase Order Processing Item Enquiry, but nothing is...
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Visual Studio 2017 & Dynamics GP Addin Project Templates “install”
Now we have Visual Studio 2017 and again it is awesome! Drop what you are doing and start developing with it right now! If you are a .NET Dynamics GP Addin developer you will find that the project...
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Uppercase in computer records–please no!
From time to time you encounter systems where the company style is to capitalise names in the system. I know of users who might as well glue the caps-lock on!If faced with the, we have always done it...
View ArticleNaming confusion may be compounded by Enterprise and Business names for...
We almost settle on one set of names for the realigned Dynamics ERP and CRM products when another set of product names seem to be upon us.As Steve Endow points out, the CRM community seem to have...
View ArticleDynamics GP - SQL script to revert multiple bins into single bins
So you want to turn off multiple binning in Dynamics GP and need to record the multiple bin where the stock is held back into the basic single bin field against each location?This script I just used to...
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Correct reconcile Dynamics GP SOP batch totals and transaction counts without...
Sometimes batch totals and transaction counts get corrupted in GP, there can be many reasons behind this. To correct them the check links maintenance routine can be executed for “Sales Work”. This will...
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Dynamics GP - Manual Payment does not generate next cheque/check number or...
Manual Payment empty document number, not defaultedWhen making a manual payment normally, after selecting the payee, the cheque book attached to that payee is queried for its next cheque number, that...
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Dynamics GP next sales order number is corrupted as has become the same as...
This problem happened today, first time for a few years, but it used to happen regularly (every few months). The issue is that the auto populated sales order number in sales transaction entry gets...
View ArticleExcel changing link paths when opened from UNC vs Mapped Drive
Behaviour of links in excel is described in this good document. Description of link management and storage in ExcelLooking at an excel cell when document opened via UNC path vs Looking at excel cell...
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Finding a rogue “dll” causing trouble with “different version of the same...
In Dynamics GP development, we have lots of .dll files around arising from support for many version releases of GP. These files litter our projects and sometimes a dll may go astray and cause trouble...
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Why does Dynamics GP use Table Heaps (no clustered indexes)?
First we should define what a table heap is. A heap is a table without a clustered index. Data is stored in the heap without specifying an order. Usually data is initially stored in the order in which...
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Dynamics GP, Item description is one hundred character capacity?
A little curiosity of mine is around this finding & why it is so…Fill the item description field of an item in dynamics GP and then paste the text into a notepad application to measure its length....
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Dynamics GP drill down logging to trace file for diagnosing problems
In a previous posts I’ve looked that protocol handler used to create the drill down features in reports and other applications used with Dynamics GP.Asynchronous pluggable Protocol Handler for Dynamics...
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Recovering a deleted Reporting Services Report
Yes, I deleted the wrong report while housekeeping. This raised the question as to how to recover it once it has been deleted? There is no recycle bin to or undelete option in reporting services on the...
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Service Unavailable (HTTP Error 503) Server Error in ‘/lus’...
Recently user home pages have been showing a few different error messages under the “connect widget” area of the home page. The connect widget is considered by some as a waste of bandwidth and is...
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#NAV Tech Days 2017–Antwerp Belgium, Day one
So here we are in Antwerp Belgium to attend my first NAV event. Being primarily involved with GP this is both a research trip and a chance to network with the wider Microsoft Dynamics community.Venue...
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NAV TechDays 2017 - Day two
Day one is here: #NAV Tech Days 2017–Antwerp Belgium, Day oneDay two and a tough start, Friday and a busy month was catching up with me. Dragged myself out of bed at a hideously early hour, to catch...
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