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High Volume GP Integration Tip: Increment your batch ID every X thousand records
By Steve EndowI've developed several high volume Dynamics GP integrations for customers that needed to import tens of thousands of transactions at a time, and I also work with customers who use Post...
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GP Consulting Developers: How do you manage your dev VMs?
By Steve EndowIf you're lucky, there's GP 2010, 2013, and 2015. Visual Studio 2010, 2013, and 2015. If you aren't lucky, you've still got GP 10, or earlier.Plus there's Analytical Accounting, Project...
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A baffling bug in a modified SOP Transaction Entry window
By Steve EndowA customer called me today asking for help with a GP customization.They have a modified SOP Transaction Entry window and a modified SOP User Defined Fields Entry window. The SOP Trx...
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Supporting a Dynamics GP ISV solution involves far more than just product...
By Steve EndowWhile reselling and supporting Post Master for Dynamics GP, I've worked with hundreds of customers who have reviewed, installed, tested, and implemented Post Master.Most customers or...
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eConnect 2015 Error: The pipe endpoint EntityOperations could not be found
By Steve EndowBack in the now distant year of 2010, I wrote a post about an eConnect error: There was no endpoint listening at net.pipe.That has been one of the most frequently accessed posts on my...
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Want to become a Dynamics GP Visual Studio developer?
By Steve EndowToday I received a question on Experts Exchange, asking how a developer who knows C# could learn how to develop with Dynamics GP. Specifically, the person was looking for a class to...
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SQL Server Express idle feature causes .NET SQL error: TCP Provider The...
By Steve EndowI just spoke with a partner who is testing Post Master Enterprise, which is a .NET application that automatically posts Dynamics GP batches.Post Master Enterprise would run fine for a...
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eConnect imports invalid Inventory Transaction causing divide by zero error...
By Steve EndowI have the privilege of seeing lots of strange things in Dynamics GP. I had a call with a customer who was having a problem posting a batch using Post Master Enterprise. Other batches...
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OpenVPN Add Route requires Run As Administrator
By Steve EndowI use OpenVPN to connect to my network when I'm remote. There was quite a learning curve getting it setup and configured, but now that I've been through that gauntlet, it works pretty...
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Locate the Dynamics GP record associated with a Note's Document Attachment
By Steve EndowI received a request tonight that I thought was interesting. I'm guessing it's not a common request, but I found it intriguing, so I thought I would post it.Dynamics GP 2013 R2 added a...
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Dynamics GP Error: Selected company is not configured as a company of the...
By Steve EndowToday I created a new test company in my development environment and then restored the TWO database into my new TEST database. I dutifully ran the GP refresh company script and got a few...
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Dynamics GP Company Posting Accounts: Sales-Sales vs. Inventory-Sales
By Steve EndowAlthough I have worked with Dynamics GP for over 10 years, because my focus is on customization, integrations, SQL, and development related areas, I don't consider myself an "Expert" when...
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A Dynamics GP error all consultants should know: Data dictionary memory...
By Steve EndowBecause I work a lot with Post Master Enterprise, which occasionally requires manual adjustments to the Dynamics GP Dynamics.SET file, I pretty consistently get a question about this...
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"This voucher number already exists" when trying to open a saved Payables...
By Steve EndowTonight I'm testing some changes to a GP VS Tools AddIn that I developed.I apparently had a bug in a line of the AddIn code that caused GP to crash while I was editing a Payables...
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How do I change the Dynamics GP Batch Approval password?
By Steve EndowI received this question today so I thought I would post it for reference. I've paraphrased it, but here is the essence of the question:"Our accounting manager is out for the day. I...
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Handy (Lazy) technique for multi-value string parsing with .NET
By Steve EndowI find that I regularly need to parse strings that contain multiple logical values. For example, you may have some employee data with a value...
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Updating a Dynamics GP binary database field in SQL Management Studio
By Steve EndowThere is a lot of background to this, but the short story is that a consultant needed to update the SOPHDRFL field in the SOP10100 table. But it turns out that the SOPHDRFL field is...
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Retrieving a value from every Dynamics GP company database
By Steve EndowBack in November 2015, I had a brief post about running a SQL statement against every Dynamics GP company database. In that case, I needed to run a SQL update statement, so it was...
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Trace database triggers using SQL Server Profiler
By Steve EndowI generally try and avoid using triggers, but they do play an important role, and occasionally I do have to develop them or interact with them.Today I was testing eConnect Requester with...
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eConnect Requester for Sales Transactions doesn't seem to work
By Steve EndowI'm having to setup eConnect Requester to simulate a client environment and modify an existing Dynamics GP eConnect integration. I opened the eConnect Requester Setup, selected the...
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