Vendor ID field is required on Void Historical Payables Transactions window in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 SP2

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

We have seen a few support cases recently about a change to the Void Historical Payables Transactions and Void Open Payables Transaction windows in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2.

Note: This issue is fixed in GP 2013 R2.

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Developers: Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2 moves the Vendor and Customer Combiner & Modifier into core code

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

I had a case today where a developer was having issues when using the Customer Combiner. This functionality was part of PSTL (Professional Services Tools Library) and as of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2 is now part of core code.

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2 New Feature Videos

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

A while ago, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2 was released. This Service Pack contained a number of new features as well as the usual fixes for issues.

The Microsoft Dynamics GP support team have released a series of articles and videos demonstrating and explaining these new features.

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2 fixes Named Printers and Page Orientation settings not being honoured

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

As mentioned in my post, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013, Printer Selection, Named Printers, Page Orientation and the System Print Dialog, there was an issue where the feature to allow the printer destination to be changed after the report had been printed to screen did not honour printer setting changes made by Named Printers or the page orientation setting from report writer.

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Date Function Errors from SmartList Account Transactions fixed in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

A little while ago I spent some time in a long screen sharing session to identify the cause of some really unusual errors being generated from SmartList Account Transactions favourite in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 1. This issue has now been fixed for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2.

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 1 updates ABN Lookup Feature

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Back in June 2011, we reported that an Australian Business Register update breaks ABN Lookup Feature. Within a couple of weeks, the Australian Business Register (ABR) team did add a URL direction which allowed the ABN (Australian Business Number) Lookup via a web browser to continue working.

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Quick Tip: Getting Command Based Menus working in Dexterity

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

In the last couple of weeks, I have had a few cases where Dexterity command based menus for addon products no longer showed in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 after Service Pack 3 was installed.

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Utilities “Hanging” when Upgrading the Databases with Service Pack 3 or any Later Hotfix

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Last month, Kelly Youells posted on the Dynamics GP Support and Services Blog about an issue which can cause Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Utilities to hang when updating to Service Pack 3 or later. The details of the issue are posted on the blog and also linked to the Dynamics GP 2010 Hot Topic:

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Unknown identifier ‘DYNAMICS’ or other Constant with GP 2010 SP1

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Recently, we have been seeing some weird errors where previously working code fails to compile with an Unknown Identifier error referring to a constant in the core Dynamics.dic dictionary.

I came across this issue myself when preparing for the recent Technical Conference.

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Login Performance Issue for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 SP5 and GP 2010 SP1

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

It has been brought to my notice that we have another issue with a dictionary adding records to the syMenuMstr (SY07110) table each time a user logs into Microsoft Dynamics GP.  This issue is caused by the new Dynamics Online Services dictionary which was installed as part of Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Service Pack 5 and Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Service Pack 1.  This is similar to the Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Service Pack 5 Login Performance issue found previously.

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Dexterity: Cannot See Table Buffer Values in 10.0 SP5 or 2010 SP1

Patrick Roth - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article Patrick Roth originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

A long standing pain point for ISV’s has been the inability to see 3rd party table buffers while debugging ISV code in runtime.

Most development – I assume – is in test mode where your customization and Dynamics are on a level playing field and the ISV can see anything they like easily.

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Quick Tip: Solving Illegal Address Errors on Alternate Windows after installing a Service Pack

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Every time a Service Pack for Microsoft Dynamics GP is released, there is a potential for the installation of the service pack to cause Illegal Address errors for a field on Modified or Alternate windows.  I have seen this a few times over the years, mostly with the Sales Transaction Entry (SOP_Entry) window in the Sales Order Processing (SOP) module.

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Service Pack 5 Login Performance issue

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

It has come to our notice that there is an issue where the Analytical Accounting dictionary for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Service Pack 5 is adding 4 records to the syMenuMstr table every time the Microsoft Dynamics GP application is launched.

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Side-by-side configuration is incorrect error message given launching Dynamics GP

Patrick Roth - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article Patrick Roth originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

It is somewhat coincidental that one of the system techs had a case Friday running into an error launching Dynamics GP 2010 and the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Service Pack 5.  What do these events have to do with each other?  Read on…

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Dex – Identifying the build number of a Development Dictionary

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

In a recent post on the new Partner Forum, it was asked how to identify the build number and hence Service Pack/Hotfix number of a Dynamics.dic dictionary being used as a development dictionary for writing a Dexterity customization.

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