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Bug in Dynamics GP 2013 eConnect Employee Deduction import:...
By Steve EndowSeveral years ago I developed a Payroll integration for a customer that transitioned from Dynamics GP HR to Kronos HR. The client wanted to use Kronos for HR, but keep GP for Payroll....
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Dynamics GP Integration Manager script to generate a fixed length number
By Steve EndowThere are some situations when importing data into GP where you want to have a consistent or fixed length to a number.Say you are importing Employees, and your source data file has...
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Why specify a Batch Number when importing bank transactions using eConnect?
By Steve EndowA few weeks ago I delivered an automated eConnect integration to a client that imports vendors, AP vouchers, GL journal entries, and bank transactions. This integration replaced several...
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Dynamics GP 2015 eConnect error: The source was not found, but some or all...
By Steve EndowAfter upgrading an eConnect integration to Dynamics GP 2015, I received the following strange error message:Exception type:Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.eConnect.eConnectExceptionException...
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How to assign a new Dynamics GP Item Class to existing inventory items and...
By Steve EndowI was asked if there was a way to create a new Inventory Item Class, apply that new class to a lot of existing inventory items, and roll down the new item class settings to those...
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Behind the Dynamics GP Remember User and Password option
By Steve EndowDynamics GP 2010 and GP 2013 have a "Remember user and password" option that allows you to save your GP login info so that Dynamics GP can login automatically. When combined with the...
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Tax Account in Vendor Account Maintenance
So, have you ever wondered when the following account is ever used? From Cards, Purchasing, Vendor, Accounts button...This came up at a client this week, and got me to wondering. As I have always...
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Microsoft's best kept secret: Office Online
By Steve EndowHave you heard of Google Docs? It's a set of fully browser based applications for editing documents. Think of it as an online version of Microsoft Word that only runs in your web...
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Automatically post 2 million transactions a day in Dynamics GP
By Steve EndowI started working with Envisage Software in 2009 to resell Post Master, which automatically posts Dynamics GP batches. I have now worked with over 250 companies that needed an auto...
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Code to Import a Note with an eConnect AP Invoice
By Steve EndowLast week a client asked me to add a new field to their AP Invoice Import. They wanted to import a unique transaction ID for their AP invoices, which were being generated by their...
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Interrupting Printing Edit Lists
Once is a fluke. Twice makes you think about it. Last month we had a client who had a large batch of sales transactions (think 1,000s of transactions). They printed an edit list, and the system...
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Mekorma MICR, Where Did My Stubs Go?
Another interesting case this past week related to Mekorma MICR Checks. A lot of our clients use this ISV solution, which works great (admittedly we sell it often for the benefits beyond the MICR...
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Dynamics GP VS Tools Reference Quirk: Microsoft.Dexterity.Bridge
By Steve EndowI'm developing a Dynamics GP VS Tools AddIn and noticed an odd behavior.I was trying to access the Dynamics Globals object properties to get the current company ID and system database...
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SQL Server name limitation with GPConnNet and VS Tools
By Steve EndowI previously wrote about a situation where the Dynamics GP GPConnNet library is unable to connect to a SQL Server instance if a port number must be specified.This week I encountered a new...
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Adding a Visual Studio snippet for a C# "public string" property
By Steve EndowWhen I am developing in Visual Studio and adding properties to a class, by far the most common property I add is a string type property. When developing for GP, over 90% of my properties...
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Using the Dynamics GP PM00400 table for Payables Imports
By Steve EndowI'm developing two different custom Dynamics GP Payables eConnect integrations for two different customers. One of the shared requirements is to validate the data for each Payables...
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Revenue Accruals in Project Accounting
The conversation about revenue recognition in project accounting for Microsoft Dynamics GP often goes like this..."How do you do revenue recognition?""Oh, we don't. Just hit revenue when we bill the...
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Unable to run SQL query on GP data with dates - Conversion of a varchar to a...
By Steve EndowAn interesting Dynamics GP query question came up on Experts Exchange. The user was asking how to select transactions for a given date range from the PM30300 table. Pretty...
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Musings on some oddities of software purchasing habits
By Steve EndowIn addition to developing Dynamics GP integrations and customizations, I sell a few add-on solutions for Dynamics GP, such as my AP Payment & Apply Import, and Envisage Software's...
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Dynamics GP Server field is blank due to changes in Dex.ini file
By Steve EndowA customer was having an issue with her "Server" field being blank when she launched Dynamics GP.I previously wrote about a similar situation where a space at the beginning of the DSN...
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