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As Great Plains Dynamics is targeting mid-size and evenlarge companies, you should expect that modification flexibility comes withcertain level of technology complexity, where you should not expect genericprogrammer to turn around in couple of days and begin to program suchproprietary Great Plains tools, as Microsoft Dexterity. However it is probably fair to say, thatVisual Studio C# or VB .Net programmer should be able to modify and designGreat Plains integrations in new SDK eConnect. In this small publication we would like togive you orientation session on Great Plains modification tools: 1. eConnect. This tool is the one that you try, when you are doing integration ofyour external application to Great Plains Dynamics GP. Good example is e-commerce web site projectwith shopping cart, turning to Sales Order Processing order or Invoice. We recommend you eConnect, even if you thinkthat simple ecommerce integration should be naturally done in MS SQL ServerStored procedures. eConnect if fact iswritten in stored procedures (however procedure code is encrypted and you cannot use it as the reference) so it leads you on the new level, where youmanipulate Great Plains objects: Customer, Vendor, GL account, Inventory Item,Sales Order. 2. Dynamics GP Dexterity. This tool is in essence GP application shell,and Great Plains is programmed in Dexterity on the core level: tables, forms,fields, triggers, etc. Dex, however isnot as open to you as eConnect, and it is rather proprietary technology, plusif you are end customer and not a Dynamics GP VAR, you have to purchaseDexterity programming license from Microsoft in order to do in-house Dexteritydevelopment. So, assuming that you arecontracting Dynamics GP technology partner with Dexterity Software Developmentfactory, you should be ready to design large or small scale unique add-on foryour organization 3. VBA and Modifier. Here you add fields in Modifier and attachVBA scripts to them, if you need to work with data insert and extraction,please use ADO connection. VBA/Modifierrequires customization site enabler license 4. Extender. This toll is the module, created in Dexterity and it opens to end userand often to somebody who is very familiar with technology, but who is not aprogrammer, to extend or modify Great Plains screens, plus create new ones 5. GP Integration Manager. Being excellent tool for integrating, it alsohas limited instruments, allowing you to alter integration logic through VBAscripts, translation tables, etc.
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