Slides for Girls on GP presentation

Thanks everyone for attending our presentation Girls on GP: Customization options for GP ! As promised, here are slides from our session Girls on GP at MSDynamicsWorld’s Decisions Fall...

Girls on GP at MSDynamicsWorld’s Decisions F...

I’ll be presenting in MSDynamicsWorld’s Decisions Fall 2011 with Tina who is also a Dynamics GP Consultant and Developer at Smith and Allen Consulting Inc. We will discuss various Customization Options available for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Register now for this fun and exciting session and many...

SOP Quote Warning -Line item quantities are not fu...

I recently came across this question in GP Community related to warning displayed while entering SOP quotes in GP. Warning Message: Message -“Line item quantities are not fully distributed. Do you want to continue?” is displayed when you enter line items in the SOP quote in Sales Transaction Entry window. Reason: Option to transfer quote to either Order or Invoice is not selected in quote ID setup. If you try to...

Warning “Sales Order Processing and Invoicin...

Error Message: “Sales Order Processing and Invoicing modules are both installed. They do not share information. Transactions should be entered in one module only.” Below I discuss how you can turn off this message using Dynamics Utilities and SQL. Reason: This message is displayed to prevent users from accidentally entering transactions in both the Sales Order Processing and Invoicing modules in Microsoft...

Modifying Reminders’ display on GP Home page

Last week, I was adding a series of reminders on the home. As I kept on adding more reminders, I noticed it was getting harder and harder to read them. I wanted to make the data displayed on Microsoft Dynamics GP home page more readable. I decided try modifying the home to accomplish this. These changes are applicable to both GP 10 and GP 2010. For some background about modifying the home page refer to following articles: How...

Error message -Could not find a part of the path &...

Error message: Could not find a part of the path ‘\\server_name\Excel Reports path\CompanyID\ CompanyID Report Name\xl\workbook.xml’ when you try to publish the report created using Excel Report builder Cause This error message is displayed when you try to publish an excel report to Report Library and report library path is not set up in Reporting  Tools Setup window (Microsoft Dynamics GP menu >>...

Updating the Home Page Metrics in GP 2010 R2

Today, I am going to discuss another feature of GP 2010 R2 –Adding/Updating the Home Page Metrics. Before starting, you should have following setup Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 or SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 Report Builder 2.0 or later Internet Explorer 7 or later One of the coolest features of the GP 2010 R2 is -you...

AA Budget made easy-Roll Budget Total Up/Down in G...

Entering Analytical Accounting budget is a tedious task especially if you have more than couple of dimensions. In earlier versions of GP, you had to calculate the total for each dimension, at each level. You could create budget in Microsoft Excel and import it in GP – Still it was lengthy task. With GP 2010 R2, you don’t have to enter the budget for dimensions(nodes) at all levels of the budget tree. You can simply...