Month: June 2014

The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The twenty-sixth Feature of the Day covered is Reverse Year End Close. This feature adds the ability to reverse the GL Year End Close Process in order to open the previous fiscal year.

Before the reversal is performed then users are warned to create a backup and also verifies that all users are logged out of GP prior to starting.

The Reverse Historical Year button will be disabled if the end-user is not maintaining history in the GL Setup form.

The reverse is done by opening the Year-End Closing window (Financial » Routines » Year-End Closing) and clicking the Reverse Historical Year button.

The most recently closed year can then be reopened:

The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The twenty-fifth Feature of the Day covered is Email or Print any Report in Word format; again I have a PowerPoint for this feature, but there is no page on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog. This feature means users will be able to send any report via email using a Word Template.

The Email Options form now has an option for .docx available :

This feature works differently in the Web Client as opposed the Desktop one.

The Web Client will automatically create a template for the report when it is printed and the template option selected. If the report is being emailed then email addresses can be specified for docx.

However, in the Desktop client a template needs to be created prior to sending via email; the template creation can be facilitated by using the Word Template Generator tool.

The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The twenty-third Feature of the Day covered is Encumbrance SQL Reporting Services Reports. New SQL Reporting Services Reports have been created for Encumbrance Management; new Encumbrance Summary and Detail reports have been added to the existing list of SRS Reports. As with other SSRS reports these ones can be run from the Reporting Services Reports navigation list, directly from the deployment location or attached to and printed from a window in Microsoft Dynamics GP.

The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The twenty-second Feature of the Day covered is Take Company Offline. This feature provides an easy way to take a company offline in order to perform a maintenance or business task requiring exclusive access. While a company is offline, only the user needing to perform the task and administrators can log into the company.

With this feature, the administrator can also send messages to GP users. Messages can be sent as a task reminder of upcoming events like maintenance happening this weekend or pop-up messages asking the user to exit the system for example.

The Take Company Offline for Maintenance window allows a single, or multiple companies, to be taken offline and a message entered which will be displayed to user’s as they attempt to access an offline company:

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The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The twenty-first Feature of the Day covered is Management Reporter Web Viewer. In the previous versions of Management Reporter 2012, the desktop Report Viewer was the only way that a report could be generated.

This new feature allows reports to be generated from within the Web Viewer by users who are in the Administrator, Designer or Generator roles. Going back and forth between applications can be cumbersome, by staying in the web viewer, accounting managers and staff accountants can get the most to date information faster.

This option refreshes the data in the report, using the original Base Period and Year and will only be visible to the user who refreshes the report.

This feature is targeted at the following roles:

1. Accounting Manager
2. Staff Accountant

The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The twentieth Feature of the Day covered is Dashboards. Four new reporting dashboards have been added to the Excel Reports in Dynamcis GP 2013.

The new dashboards are for the Financial, Sales, Purchasing and Inventory series and are deployed with the other Excel Reports. These refreshable reports can deployed to a shared network drive, SharePoint or SharePoint Online.

The Financial dashboard:

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The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The nineteenth Feature of the Day covered is Suggested Item Enhancements – Sales Script and Additional Information. The Suggested item enhancements allows the user to add a sales script to each suggested item. This script will give the salesperson more information about the item.

As you can see in the screenshot the Item Maintenance – Suggest Items window (Inventory » Cards » Item Maintenance | Suggest Items button) has been updated with a Sales Script field for each item:

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The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The eighteenth Feature of the Day covered is Suggested Item Enhancements – Analysis and Assignment. Suggested Items were introduced in Dynamics GP 2013 and it is really good to see this feature extended further.

The Suggestion item enhancements allows the user to analyze an item and recommends companion items that should be sold with it. The assignment feature uses the suggestions from the analysis and will provide the ability to update the Suggested Sales Items window at the time of the analysis.

One window has been amended and one created for this feature. The amended window is the Item Maintenance – Suggest Items window (Inventory » Cards » Item Maintenance | Suggest Items button):

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The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The seventeenth Feature of the Day covered is Azure Backups.

The SQL backup and restore windows in Dynamics GP 2013 R2 have been enhanced to allow backups to be stored on Azure. I’ve noticed the same problem that MIcrosoft have with backups; namely that people will make a backup of the SQL databases and then leave them on the same server. This is pointless from a disaster recovery point of view as if something happens to the server you have lost both the database and the backups.

But, as of 2013 R2 the backups can be transferred to Azure storage. The Company Backup window (Microsoft Dynamics GP menu » Maintenance » Backup) has been enhanced to allow Azure to be selected as the backup location and a path specified:

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