Winthrop DC Now Distributing Products Directly

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Winthrop DCAs announced back in May, from the 1st July 2018, Winthrop Development Consultants now directly and exclusively distributes all of its products.

Pricing remains the same (exception for Australia), but purchasing is handled directly by Winthrop DC and if you’re a partner, you will need to sign up as a partner with Winthrop DC (which is free to do) before purchasing for your clients.

One important point to note, is that only the latest builds of the software will automatically switch over to using Winthrop DC’s registration servers.

To ensure a smooth transition, please ensure all Winthrop products on your, or your clients, systems are updated on all servers and workstations before the current subscriptions expire. Upgrades can be installed over the top of existing builds, so there is no need to uninstall.

Full details of this changeover is available on the Winthrop DC site.

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MVP Not Renewed for 2018-2019

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Microsoft MVPWell, it seems that doing even more in this renewal period than I did to get the MVP award originally or keep it for three renewals, I have not done enough to retain it for the 2018-2019 year.

There seems to have been a mass culling this year, caused by Microsoft assigning more weight to some types of contribution than other types.

As a note, the renewal process is opaque with no guidance on how to get renewed, apart from being told to continue doing what you did to be awarded in the first place. With the apparent change in weightings, doing what you did is no longer enough if those contributions are now weighed less.

The Microsoft Dynamics GP element of the Business Solutions category itself saw five of fifteen MVPs removed; four no longer MVP and one moved to a new category.

Congratulations to all those MVPs who were renewed; for a list of those awarded for Dynamics GP, current MVP Jen Kuntz maintains a list, plus I have a list on my links page.

Neither of us have yet updated the pages, to allow people time to make their own announcements, but check those pages later in the week to see the updated lists.

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Choose Which Icons Show in Windows 10 System Tray

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WindowsAs Windows has progressed through the years, some settings have changed and been moved. One of the ones I struggle to find is how to set icons so that they always appear in the system tray. I’m sure this used to be done via right click on the system tray, but in Windows 10, the setting is buried in the Settings app.

In theory, it is possible to find it via a Start menu search, but I never remember the exact words to find it (or if I do they don’t seem to work until after I’ve found the settings via the Settings app.

A few weeks ago, I did a post on using the ms-settings URIs as shortcuts to quickly access the settings.

To quickly get to the relevant settings for choosing which icons show in the system tray, hit Win+R and typems-settings:taskbar:

Run ms-settings:taskbar

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Workflow Approval Request Error After Upgrade

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Microsoft Dynamics GPI’ve assisted a few clients to upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 recently and have seen two different errors cause problems with Workflow.

As part of the upgrade process, database objects are deployed and various scripts run against them. This includes the wfdeployclrassemblies stored procedure which deploys the .NET Assemblies required by Workflow for such tasks as AD lookups and sending of emails.

However, I’m going to make the running of this stored procedure a standard, manual, part of the upgrade as I am finding that if it isn’t run after the upgrade is complete, that AD lookups don’t work until it is (this usually manifests in approvals failing to find a user to email or approvals failing if the user had the email from before the upgrade). I might was preempt and do it manually every time in order to give clients a smoother process. To run the stored proc, open SQL Server Management Studio and, against the system database, typically called DYNAMICS run the following (it’ll take a few minutes):

exec wfdeployclrassemblies

The other issue I’ve now seen more than once (and have also seen when upgrading some clients to prior versions), is that during the upgrade the Workflow managers are lost:

Workflow Maintenance

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DNS Overview for External Workflow 2.0 Email Notification Approval

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Microsoft Dynamics GPSince its introduction, Workflow for Microsoft Dynamics GP has proven to be very popular and is a module I have spent a lot of time with. Workflow integrates with the Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP for the approval (or rejection) via email; there is a fair bit of complexity around this area, mainly in accessing the email actions from outside of the domain.

Dan Peltier of Microsoft has a good write up of what is required for DNS settings to allow for external access of approvals.

In the near future, I am going to be doing a small series on configuring web services to use https for approval/rejection, but will be written on the assumption you have working DNS records ready (DNS is very much not my specialist subject). Dan’s post is a good starting point if you need assistance in this area.

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GP Transaction Search: Where Next?

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Winthrop DCThis post is part of the series on the new, free, GP Transaction Search window from Steve Endow of Precipio Services.

The GP Transaction Search is in in its first version; I think that Steve has made a very good start and I look forward to seeing the progress in future.

Steve isn’t allowing moss to grow, but is instead hard at work on version two, which includes new search windows for the General Ledger and Receivables Management modules as well as custom menus (rather than replacing the Transaction by Document menu) by using Visual Studio Integration Toolkit from Winthrop DC:

After version two comes out with these new search windows, I’d like to see additional windows created for Purchase Order Processing, Sales Order Processing and Inventory Control and, in longer term, other modules. The good news on this front, is that Steve has aspirations to create windows for additional modules as well.

The GP Transaction Search project is an open source one created by Steve Endow, but other people can get involved and contribute. If you find the project useful, consider seeing how you can be of assistance. I’ve already done this and have, since before the release of v1, been offering my assistance with testing and, more recently, with writing SQL queries.

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Removing Blank Lines from Microsoft Word

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Microsoft OfficeI recently had to read a large Word document which had apparently been written by someone who doesn’t know how to use Microsoft Word. Intead of using paragraph spacing they had inserted blank lines.

I know in the scheme of things, this is a relatively minor gripe, but in a large document it is still annoying.

However, there is a simple way in Word to remove blank lines.

Using the Find and Replace tool, in the Find what box type ^p^p and in the Replace with box type ^p; hit Replace All and all double line breaks will be replaced with single line ones:

MS Word Find and Replace

To my eyes this makes the document far more readable which is important for a large one.

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GP Transaction Search: Customising the Returned Data

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Winthrop DCThis post is part of the series on the new, free, GP Transaction Search window from Steve Endow of Precipio Services.

A couple of posts ago, I covered installing the stored procedure (which I erroneously referred to as a view when I first posted). The stored proc controls the returned data which in turns controls what is displayed in the search results window.

Customising the returned data is as simple as amending the stored procedure. If, for example, I wanted to add the suppliers country, I can add the following (highlighted) line and save the altered stored proc:

SELECT TOP 200 	
	P.Origin, 
	V.COUNTRY AS 'Country',
	RTRIM(P.DOCNUMBR) DocNum,

Any change does need some familiarity with SQL and stored procedures, but is pretty straightforward.

Before the change is committed, this is the returned data:

PM Transaction Search

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GP Transaction Search: Using PM Transaction Search v1.0.0.4

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Winthrop DCThis post is part of the series on the new, free, GP Transaction Search window from Steve Endow of Precipio Services.

Over the last couple of posts, I’ve covered the installation and configuration of the PM Transaction each enquiry window; now it is time to take a look at the functionality of the inquiry/enquiry window.

The first, and main, access point to the PM Transaction Search window is via the standard navigation of area pages or drop down menus; it replaces the Transaction by Document window on the Purchasing area page » Inquiry/Enquiry menu:

Inquiry menu

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GP Transaction Search: Installing the SQL Stored Proc for v1.0.0.4

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Winthrop DCThis post is part of the series on the new, free, GP Transaction Search window from Steve Endow of Precipio Services.

When running through the installation of the GP Transaction Search the other day, I didn’t cover the deployment of the SQL stored proc.

In the downloaded zip file, there is a SQL script called csspGLTransactionSearch v1.1.sql which needs to bedeployed in each company database:

Windows Explorer

Once this is deployed, the PM Transaction Search window will be fully working.

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