Category: GP (Great Plains)

With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components and also look at the new functionality introduced; the index for this series can be found here.

In this post, I’m going “hands on” with the sixth of the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 Feature of the Day posts, Display Tax Percent for Historical Sales Transactions.

To test this feature, I created a new Tax Detail in Tax Detail Maintenance (Administration >> Setup >> Company >> Tax Details) for a Sales series Standard Rated UK VAT at 20% and created a related Tax Schedule:

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With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components and also look at the new functionality introduced; the index for this series can be found here.

This Hands On post is going to take a look at the Purchase Requisition Enquiry Icon Feature of the Day post which follows on from the Cancel A PO Linked to a Requisition feature.

I covered this feature Hands On here.

To test the icon, I entered a purchase requisition with a quantity of 5:

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With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components and also look at the new functionality introduced; the index for this series can be found here.

The feature of the day I am covering in this post, is the Batch Edited Message. If a user tries to open a batch being edited by another user they will receive a warning message containing the users name:

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This batch is being edited by laurab. Please try later.

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With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components and also look at the new functionality introduced; the index for this series can be found here.

The third feature I’m going to take a look at is the Cancel Purchase Orders Linked To A Requisition. For those doubting why this feature was needed, in previous versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP, when yuo tried to cancel a quantity on a purchase order you would receive a message if the remaining quantity didn’t cover the requisition quantity:

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With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components and also look at the new functionality introduced; the index for this series can be found here.

The second of the new features I’m going to cover is SmartList Favorite Protection.

This feature allows the administrators to define a password which must be entered before a SmartList favorite can be modified. The password is entered in the SmartList Options window (Administration >> Setup >> System >> SmartList Options):

The password impacts all SmartList favorites. Please do not use ACCESS as the password; I see far too many clients who have this as a password throughout their system. It is in all of the manuals and lots of blog posts so it is pretty much the least secure password you could use.

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With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components and also look at the new functionality introduced; the index for this series can be found here.

This is the first of the posts where I will be covering the new functionality introduced to Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2. In this post I am going to cover the addition of SmartList Designer favorites in Advanced Lookups new feature.

To use this feature, create a SmartList Designer object:

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