Microsoft Dynamics GP Dex.ini Settings not working

David Meego - Click for blog homepageAnother thread on the GPUG forum prompted me to write this article. It is one that I have been meaning to write for a while as this is not the first time I have seen complaints that a Dex.ini setting does not work or is not behaving as expected.

This article explains the changes made in the recent versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP and how they could be causing the behaviour you are seeing.

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#MSDynGP Dynamics 365 BC is not an upgrade from Dynamics GP

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis week a forum thread on the GPUG Open Forum caught my attention and I felt I had to respond. The topic was the future of Microsoft Dynamics GP and whether moving to Dynamics 365 is an option.

The fact that the question was asked again has prompted me to write another article to help get the correct message out to the Microsoft Dynamics GP community.

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#UserGroupSummit Summit Australia Session Schedule now available

David Meego - Click for blog homepageJust in case you missed it.

The Dynamic Communities team have published the session schedule for the Summit Australia for Microsoft Business Applications 2019 conference being held in Melbourne on 21-23 August 2019.

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#UserGroupWT User Group World Tour 2019 – Johannesburg

David Meego - Click for blog homepageHello from Johannesburg.

Yesterday was the final day of the User Group World Tour 2019 conference in Johannesburg. It was a fantastic two days jammed packed with lots of sessions and plenty of “advanced networking opportunities” *.

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#UserGroupSummit Join us for Summit Australia for Microsoft Business Applications 2019

David Meego - Click for blog homepageFor many years I have dreamed of having a User Summit event in Australia, so that the Asia Pacific region could get some conference “love” without having to travel to the USA. That dream is now a reality with the Summit Australia 2019 conference in Melbourne, Australia.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about the Microsoft Dynamics (especially Dynamics GP) and Power platform products.  Register before 12th June to get the Early Bird Discount.

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#GPPT Renumbering SOP Transaction Lines

David Meego - Click for blog homepageEarlier this week, a forum post by my friend Abra Gilman on the GPUG Open Forum brought up the problem where a user was getting an error when attempting to insert a new line into a SOP Transaction.

This problem can be reproduced by attempting to insert lines in the same location more than 14 times, on the 15th attempt an error will be generated.

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#GPPT GP Power Tools Training at User Group Summit 2019 in Orlando, FL, USA

David Meego - Click for blog homepageI am pleased to announce that there will be GP Power Tools training offered by the GPUG Academy during the training days before User Group Summit 2019 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

We have previously run this training as two half day courses, but it worked best when students attended both the morning and afternoon sessions. So, this year we have decided to run the training as a single full day course on Monday 14th October 2019.

We have lots of new functionality to cover with the releases of Build 26 and Build 27 of GP Power Tools this year.

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#UserGroupWT Join us at the User Group World Tour 2019 – Johannesburg, South Africa

David Meego - Click for blog homepageIn less than a week, I am getting on a plane and heading west to Johannesburg, South Africa for the User Group World Tour conference. This will be my third Microsoft Dynamics GP conference in South Africa and I am looking foward to spending time with the community again.

If you are not registered yet, now is your chance to learn how to get the most from your software investment.

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Announcing Dexterity Training at User Group Summit 2019 in Orlando, FL, USA

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThe 2019 conference season starts soon (just a week to Johannesburg, South Africa), and it is time to take advantage of the Dexterity Bootcamp training that is being run in the week prior to User Group Summit 2019 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Dexterity is the development environment that Microsoft Dynamics GP is built on and the best tool to use for any customisation to the user interface of the product. Knowledge of Dexterity is vital for anyone customising Dynamics GP even when using other languages such as C#, VB.Net and even VBA (Visual Basic for Application).

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