Author Archives: Ian Grieve

About Ian Grieve

Ian is a Microsoft Dynamics GP certified consultant specialising in the delivery of Microsoft Dynamics GP projects and currently working for Perfect Image Ltd., a Microsoft Partner and VAR in the North East of England. Ian has worked with Microsoft Dynamics GP since 2003 and, over the nine years since, has dealt with all aspects of the product life-cycle from presales, to implementation, to technical and functional training, to post go-live support and subsequent upgrades and process reviews. In his spare time, Ian runs the azurecurve | Ramblings of a Dynamics GP Consultant blog dedicated to Microsoft Dynamics GP and related products.

Review of Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications – Part 5

Posted on 11th April 2013 by Ian Grieve

I started reviewing Leslie Vail’s book, Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications, which was published at the end of December by Packt Publishing, a few weeks ago. To do this review I decided to take a read through and complete all the examples she gives on developing an application as I’ve only had very limited experience with Dexterity;

Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications by Leslie Vail

Today, it is time for part 5 of my review where I look at Chapter 6: Deploying a Dexterity Solution where Leslie covers the following key topics:

System requirements
Versions and builds
Table creation routines
Completing the application
Creating the chunk file
Testing in a multi-dictionary environment
Distributing the completed application

This chapter has a fair bit of explanatory text covering each of the key topics.

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Posted in Dexterity, Dexterity Utilities, Dynamics, GP, Microsoft, Packt Publishing, Review, sanScript | Tagged Books, Dexterity, GP, Leslie Vail, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Packt Publishing, Review, sanScript | Leave a comment

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client First Run On A Client

Posted on 10th April 2013 by Ian Grieve

Over the last few posts, I’ve covered the installation of the Web Client Runtime, added the IIS role, created a self-signed certificate, installed the Web Client, ran the Configuration Wizard, and installed the GP Resource Web Cache. Now it is time to run the Web Client for the first time to ensure required components are installed on a client; I’m installing a new demo machine so I know one component won’t be installed.

Navigate to the address if the site hosting the Web Client. In the case when you have a self-signed security certificate (which I would only advise for demo or test systems) you will be presented with a warning that the site may not be safe; this is the one time I will recommend to someone that they go against the browser’s advice and click Continue to this website (like my credit card company, MBNA, who have a site with an invalid certificate, going on for six years now, and have the security team advise people to accept the invalid certificate and proceed);

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Posted in Dynamics, GP, Microsoft, Web Client | Tagged GP, Installation, Installation & Configuration, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013, Silverlight, Web Client | 4 Comments

Review of Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications – Part 4

Posted on 6th April 2013 by Ian Grieve

I started reviewing Leslie Vail’s book, Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications,which was published at the end of December by Packt Publishing, a few weeks ago. To do this review I decided to take a read through and complete all the examples she gives on developing an application as I’ve only had very limited experience with Dexterity;

Today I’m taking a look at Chapter 5 which covers sanScript and how to add it to windows to enable the required functionality. The key topics to be covered are:

Introduction to sanScript
Scrolling Windows
Triggers

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Posted in Dexterity, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, Microsoft, Packt Publishing, Programming, Review, sanScript | Tagged Books, Dexterity, GP, Integration Manager, Leslie Vail, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Packt Publishing, sanScript | 2 Comments

Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications eBook Giveaway Winners

Posted on 3rd April 2013 by Ian Grieve

I recently had three e-copies to giveaway of Leslie Vail’s book, Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications.

The ebook giveway was in association with the publisher of the book, Packt Publishing.

Thanks very much all who entered, but unfortunately there could only be three winners who have now been contacted by Packt on the email address supplied with their entries in the giveaway.

The winners are (in no particular order, beyond ladies first);

Jennifer H
Bruce E
Scott S

For those unfortunate not to win, you can purchase Leslie’s book either direct from Packt Publishing or via Amazon:

Amazon UK	Amazon US

Thanks again to those who entered.

Posted in Dynamics, eBook Giveaway, GP, Microsoft, Packt Publishing | Tagged eBook Giveaway, GP, Leslie Vail, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Packt Publishing | Leave a comment

How To Install Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client: Installing The GP Web Resource Cache

Posted on 2nd April 2013 by Ian Grieve

With the Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client installed and configured the Web Client is now available for use. However, there is one final additional product which can be installed from the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 setup utility and that is the GP Web Resource Cache which improves performance by enabling web client caching.

On a multi-machine deployment the GP Web Resource Cache should be installed on each Session Host machine.

Launch the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 setup utility and under Additional products select GP Web Resource Cache;

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Posted in Dynamics, GP, Microsoft, Web Client | Tagged GP, Installation, Installation & Configuration, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013, Web Client | 2 Comments

Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013 by Mark Polino

Posted on 1st April 2013 by Ian Grieve

Following on relatively quickly from Leslie Vail’s new Microsoft Dynamics GP book, , available from Packt Publishing, comes Mark Polino with Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013.

This book will teach you how to build a dashboard using Excel 2013 with information from Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013, how to make Excel a true business intelligence tool with charts, sparklines and slicers and show how to utilise PowerPivot’s full potential to create even more complex dashboards;

Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013 by Mark Polino

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Posted in Dynamics, GP, Microsoft, Office, Office 2013, Packt Publishing, Review | Tagged Excel, Excel 2013, GP, Mark Polino, Microsof Dynamics, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013, Office, Office 2013, Packt Publishing, Review | 3 Comments

DynamicAccounting.net has moved to DynamicAccounting.net

Posted on 1st April 2013 by Ian Grieve

Okay not actually as confusing as the title suggests but Mark Polino has migrated hs blog from Blogspot to WordPress and now has the address www.DynamicsAccounting.net pointing to the blog so update your bookmarks and go to the new site for his regular updates on happenings in the Dynamics GP community.

Mark has kept a theme very similar to the one on the Blogspot version so you should be able to adapt to the new site and keep up to date without any problems.

It also marks another GP blog using WordPress along with Victoria Yudin, Ian Stewart, Vaidy Mohan, Sivakumar Venkataraman and I.

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How To Install Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client: Running The Configuration Wizard

Posted on 26th March 2013 by Ian Grieve

In the last post, I showed how to install the Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client; the next step is to run the Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client Configuration Wizard from the Windows Start menu;

Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client Configuration Wizard - Welcome

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Posted in Dynamics, GP, Microsoft, Web Client | Tagged Configuration, GP, Installation & Configuration, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013, Web Client | 2 Comments

Review of Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications – Part 3

Posted on 24th March 2013 by Ian Grieve

After slacking off a lot in terms of reviewing Leslie Vail’s book Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications, which was published at the end of December by Packt Publishing, I’m going to try to get a regular tempo of review posts going. Today I’m here with the review for chapter 4;

This chapter is all about Building the User Interface which Leslie does by getting the reader to build an interface for customer contacts integration and covers:

Creating base resources
Creating tables and keys
Creating forms and windows
Creating scrolling windows
Working with window fields
Completing your windows

So from this chapter I expect to get a good grounding in creating an entirely new window which should look like this:

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Posted in Dexterity, Dexterity, Dynamics, eBook Giveaway, GP, Microsoft, Packt Publishing, Programming | Tagged Books, Dexterity, GP, Integration Manager, Leslie Vail, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Packt Publishing | 2 Comments

Don’t Forget We Have 3 e-Copies Of Packt’s Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications Book To Giveaway

Posted on 20th March 2013 by Ian Grieve

As the title says, don’t forget that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing and have organised a give away especially for you. All you need to do is submit a reason why you should win and win one of three free e-copies of Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications. Three lucky winners stand a chance to win an e-copy of the book;

How to Enter?
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