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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Everything Dynamics GP #25

Once or twice every week I get an alert of a question posted in old GP Public Newsgroups. For those of you, out there, using the old group, I would recommend updating your bookmarks and using the new and very active Dynamics GP Community forum.

I can understand people might want to go back to the archives in the old forum (there were over 90,000 posts there), for searching through them you can use the search at www.gpwindow.com

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GP

3rd Party

  • VIDEO : Dynamics GP Library by Olympic Software - “Based on Olympic's Qwikir platform, GP Library socialises your financial information through a web interface and keeps data up to date in real-time.”

Troubleshooting Help

Reporting

Other Interesting Stuff

Jivtesh (Microsoft Dynamics GP MVP)
Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
Blog : www.jivtesh.com
GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

Friday, August 26, 2011

Everything Dynamics GP #24

Everybody on the east coast, be safe.

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GP

SQL/Database

Reporting

Other Interesting Stuff

Dynamics GP Videos of the Day

Jivtesh (Dynamics GP MVP)
Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
Blog : www.jivtesh.com
GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Everything Dynamics GP #23

Mark Polino has a new story up - New Dynamics GP Fiction: Wiseguy. I doubt there is this kind of fiction about any other ERP application, so we are lucky to have Mark writing witty, and informative stories. I remember the time we were all excited looking at a brief screenshot of GP in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Dynamics GP in the Movies. 

Maybe someday we will see a movie or at least a TV series made out of Mark’s short stories!

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GP

Tips

SQL / Database Stuff

Payroll

Troubleshooting

Downloads

3rd Party

Other Interesting Stuff

Dynamics GP Videos of the Day

  • Microsoft Dynamics GP Revenue/Expense Deferrals (Belinda Allen)- “Here I’ll show you how easy it is to defer Revenue over a specified period of time. I’ll setup a Deferral Profile to make a template for commonly used deferrals. No more manually deferring, let GP do it for you!”

 

Jivtesh (Dynamics GP MVP)
Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
Blog : www.jivtesh.com
GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Using Gestures with Business Analyzer for Dynamics GP

When Kinect for XBOX came out last year, I immediately fell in love with it. Wii was good, but Kinect was a whole different ball game. All my friends wanted to have a go at each other in Boxing, Bowling and everything else.

Around the same time, I had acute back pain, which made me take a break from work. My awesome friends encouraged me to setup a small gaming zone (something I had always dreamed of). We all pooled in and put together some Foosball Tables, Gaming Systems, Racing Wheels – and well – that business is still going on.

We also put together a couple of Kinect Systems, so people could try them out, and buy them as well. At our Gaming Zone – I saw people fall in love with Kinect – fathers playing with their sons, families getting together. It was awesome!

I was dying to program with Kinect. I didn’t want to move away from GP either, but I didn’t see the two fitting together. Making a journal entry with Kinect seemed like a very bad idea. Then, earlier this year, I saw Business Analyzer (Available with Dynamics GP 2010 R2), and how it let you add beautiful KPIs, Charts and Graphs to your personal dashboard. What if we let people navigate Business Analyzer with their gestures. That seemed like a good fit – and could be used in meetings!

Microsoft has done a great job with the Kinect SDK and the Kinect ToolBox. Using the two I was able to track 4 gestures, and then send commands to Business Analyzer to navigate through the reports.

Check out the Video (only a couple of minutes long)

The video is available at http://youtu.be/ugJsdg4WWS8?hd=1

Gestures

I captured the following Gestures -

  1. Swipe to Right – Moves to next Graph in Business Analyzer
  2. Swipe to Left – Move back to previous Graph
  3. Expand Gesture – Zooms into a graph
  4. Contract Gesture – Zoom out

I lost a bit of weight while coding for this!

Initially while working on this I was constantly getting up from my chair to test out the gestures. Later on I figured out how you can record your gestures/sequence of gestures to avoid getting up or getting hold of somebody while you are are debugging. Kinect toolbox has a set of replay classes.

The Future

Kinect is extremely responsive, and only $150, and can be attached to any PC. As the technology matures, and maybe in the future Notebooks come with a Kinect like camera array, I don’t see any reason why you would be using a Presentation Pointer or Remote and not use your hand and natural gestures.

Resources

Kinect SDK is available at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/

Kinect Toolbox is available at http://kinecttoolbox.codeplex.com/

My Favorite Kinect Games

There are about 20+ games available, but the rest were pretty average. I am looking forward to the new games coming out this holiday season.

Monday, August 22, 2011

Everything Dynamics GP #22

David Musgrave has a great story about the origins of the blockbuster Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP (which I just learnt, has over 61,000 lines of re-usable code!). Lines of code are not the perfect measure for any product, but just shows how much hard work has gone into this tool, created to help out people supporting GP.

The Creation of the Support Debugging Tool  

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GP

Payroll

Reporting

Other Interesting Stuff

Dynamics GP Videos of the Day

Jivtesh (Dynamics GP MVP)
Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
Blog : www.jivtesh.com
GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Everything Dynamics GP #21

Lots of great information today – If you have been waiting to know about FRx Forecaster Future – Jill Carter has answers to all your questions - Microsoft Forecaster - What's the future? Good news – its here for a while.

Lynn Mueller has the list of most viewed KB Articles for GP Knowledge Base Article News for Dynamics GP and has a tip on finding KB articles using Bing. Just add “Microsoft Dynamics GP kb” to your query!

I tried this myself - Microsoft Dynamics GP kb home page – Bing – and found some useful results. It doesn’t yet show all the results but it is a great start when you dont want to login to Partnersource on a client PC. Of course you can always use the search on www.GPWindow.com!

Finally – a series I am really looking forward to as a .Net developer has started- Dynamics GP Developer Insights: The Evolution of the Silverlight PushButton . They discuss their design decisions. This is really fascinating and its really nice of Microsoft – thank you Kurt Larson, David Musgrave and everybody else!

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GP

Reporting

Other Interesting Stuff

Dynamics GP Videos of the Day

This video will provide a deeper look at how Microsoft uses secure, reliable, scalable and efficient best practices to deliver over 200 cloud services to more than a billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 70 countries.It provides an understanding at how we view our end-to-end cloud strategy from an infrastructure perspective. 

Jivtesh (Dynamics GP MVP)
Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
Blog : www.jivtesh.com
GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Everything Dynamics GP #20

Frank Hamelly has a nice post up - What's New in GP 2010 PO Returns? Replace Returned Goods!!

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GP

Cloud/Hosting

Reporting

Other Interesting Stuff

Dynamics GP Videos of the Day

Jivtesh (Dynamics GP MVP)
Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
Blog : www.jivtesh.com
GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

Friday, August 12, 2011

IMPORTANT UPDATE : Partnersource/CustomerSource will be Down Tomorrow

If any of you were planning to work tomorrow, you might want to know – there will be no access to My Messages, PartnerSource, CustomerSource or Order Central on Saturday, August 13, 2011 starting at 8:00am CST until 5:30pm CST.

See more details here -  Special Alert – PartnerSource/CustomerSource Scheduled System Downtime – August 13, 2011

Enjoy your weekend!

Everything Dynamics GP #19

Friday.  Enough said.

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GP

Database/SQL

Reporting

Other Interesting Stuff

Dynamics GP Videos of the Day

  • Microsoft Dynamics GP Posting Dates (Transaction vs. GL) (Belinda Allen) “What are there 2 dates on all transaction except the General Ledger? I answer this question for you, along with the why’s and wherefores? The dates can be confusing, but this video helps you understand the difference between the 2 dates and how they are used.”

 

Jivtesh (Dynamics GP MVP)
Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
Blog : www.jivtesh.com
GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Everything Dynamics GP #18

I attended an excellent presentation by Mark Rockwell yesterday - GPUG: 100 Products in 50 Minutes (August 2011) . He actually covered over 130 Dynamics GP Products spending about 30 seconds on each product. He will present this again at the GPUG Summit. Do check it out. 

If you were using Integration Manager with GP 2010 and facing some issues, you were not alone. There was probably an issue with the home page gadget which has now been resolved. Mariano and Janakiram have details here -

  • Integration Manager hangs in GP 2010: III
  • Integration Manager for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 hangs when running an integration - Follow up
  • Integration Manager for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 hangs when running an integration
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    GP

    Database

    Other Interesting Stuff

    Dynamics GP Videos of the Day

    Jivtesh (Dynamics GP MVP)
    Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
    Blog : www.jivtesh.com
    GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

    Tuesday, August 9, 2011

    Everything Dynamics GP #17

    Rubal has a fantastic article answering most frequently asked questions about Dynamics GP Security, with resources - Tips and tricks for setting up User Security in Microsoft Dynamics GP | Dynamics GP Help

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    GP

    GP Tips and Tricks

    GP Troubleshooting

    Reporting

    Other Interesting Stuff

    Dynamics GP Videos of the Day

    Jivtesh (Dynamics GP MVP)
    Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
    Blog : www.jivtesh.com
    GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

    Monday, August 8, 2011

    Everything Dynamics GP #16

    A Matter of Degrees? Activity Tracking and Dynamics GP (Christina Phillips) – looks at various options out of the box for Activity Tracking in Dynamics GP.  If you have specific auditing requirements - there are a couple of nice Add-On Software for Dynamics GP like Auditor and Audit Trail from FastPath

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    Support Debugging Tool 

    Siva has taken up an awesome challenge for the last couple of weeks – he reviews common Dynamics GP requests from the community and then resolves them using the Support Debugging Tool. Last year – me and a few of my team members did something similar - Support Debugging Tool « Dynamics GPMariano and David have a lot of great posts up related to this as well.

      GP Tips and Tricks

      GP

      Other Interesting Stuff

      Dynamics GP Videos of the Day

       

      Jivtesh (Dynamics GP MVP)
      Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
      Blog : www.jivtesh.com
      GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

      Friday, August 5, 2011

      Everything Dynamics GP #15

      The GP Blogs are buzzing, and Martin has a link to a Mac Vs PC kind of video for  Netsuite Vs GP. NetSuite V GP (An interesting Video and write-up by Martin)

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      GP

      Knowledge Base

      3rd Party/ISV

      Management Reporter

      Reporting

      Other Interesting Stuff

      Dynamics GP Videos of the Day

      Jivtesh (Dynamics GP MVP)
      Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
      Blog : www.jivtesh.com
      GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

      Wednesday, August 3, 2011

      Everything Dynamics GP #14

      Good News - GP 2010 R2 VPC is available for download, and

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      GP

      GP Reporting

      GP Troubleshooting

      Management Reporter

      Other Interesting Stuff

      Dynamics GP Videos of the Day

       

      Jivtesh (Dynamics GP MVP)
      Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
      Blog : www.jivtesh.com
      GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

      Tuesday, August 2, 2011

      Dynamics GP Videos by Steve Chapman from Rose Business Solutions

      Yesterday I had a list of Dynamics GP Videos by Belinda Allen. Another GP expert Steve Chapman has been recording a lot of excellent Dynamics GP Videos.

      Steve covers the broad range of Dynamics GP Modules in his videos – from Manufacturing to Requisition Management. Most of Steve’s videos have a high resolution version, which helps.

      Steve has probably put in countless hours on these videos, check them out and leave your comments.

      GP 2010

      Reporting

      Smartlist Builder

    • Simple SmartList Builder - One Table‬‏ – YouTube
    • SmartList Builder - Two Tables‬‏ – YouTube
    • Use SQL Views to Create SmartLists‬‏ – YouTube
    • Migrate Smartlist Builder Reports to Excel Report Builder Reports

      Management Reporter

      Setup

      Financial

      Analytical Accounting

      Receivables

      Collections Management

      SOP

      Payables

      Returns Management

      Project Accounting

      POP

      Inventory

      Multicurrency

      Manufacturing

      HR

      Revenue/Expense Deferral

      Advanced Distribution

      Extended Pricing

      Field Level Security

      FRx

      Analysis Cubes

      Intercompany

      SharePoint/Business Portal

      Integration Manager

      Extender

      3rd Party/ISV

      Other

    • Everything Dynamics GP #13

      Pam Misialek has the list of current Dynamics GP MVPs sorted by date, which makes me feel very young!  MVP Shout Out: Who are the longest, oldest, maybe wise beyond age?

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      GP

      Management Reporter

      Cloud/Hosting

      ISV/Add-On Software for Dynamics GP

      Other Interesting Stuff

      Dynamics GP Videos of the Day

       

      Jivtesh (Dynamics GP MVP)
      Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
      Blog : www.jivtesh.com
      GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

      Monday, August 1, 2011

      Everything Dynamics GP #12

      Free tools to improve your experience with Microsoft Dynamics – Part 1 - Jane Serra has a post highlighting Support Debugging Tool, SpellCheck and SmartSort. While you are at it - Mariano had a list of 10 free Add-Ons for GP last year The Dynamics GP Blogster: Top 10 Microsoft Dynamics GP freebies

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      GP

      Database

      Dynamics GP Videos of the Day

       

      Jivtesh (Dynamics GP MVP)
      Have any GP related questions ? Feel free to email me at Jivtesh AT gmail.com
      Blog : www.jivtesh.com
      GP Help Website : www.gpwindow.com (Over 10,000 Dynamics GP Resources)

      Awesome Dynamics GP Videos by Belinda The GP CSI!

      Thanks to Belinda’s tireless work, now I can watch Youtube videos at work!

      In the past one year, Belinda has recorded over 80 Dynamics GP Videos! They cover various modules, I have categorized and listed them below. 

      My problem with GP related YouTube videos in the past was the low quality of the videos, which made watching them a pain. Belinda’s videos have the option to play them in 720p, and I recommend you use that setting (its on the bottom right of the videos). Belinda was a RJ, back in the day, so if any of you think her voice sounds similar, that might be the reason.

      Setup

      Financial

      Inter Company / Inter-Fund

      Analytical Accounting

      Bank Reconciliation

      Receivables

      Collections

      SOP

      Payables

      POP

      Multicurrency

      Reporting

      FRx

      Management Reporter

      Word Templates

      Integration Manager

      Tools/ Resources

      Payroll

      SQL

      Tips and Tricks

      I wrote a post about this last year - Dynamics GP Videos. There are also tons of videos at GPWindow.com - Dynamics GP- GP MEDIA > GP VIDEOS