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----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc
This small publication is targeted to IT people, who aremaking their first steps in supporting Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP: 1. Microsoft Dexterity. Dynamics GP Database and Core dictionaries:Dynamics.dic, for example are products, creating with Dexterity and influencedby Dex architecture. Dexterity has its ownscripting programming language Sanscript, however we would rather classify itas semi-proprietary and it is unlikely to expect generic software developer tobe turned into Dynamics GP Dexterity programmer over night or in a few months. We recommend you to outsource Dexteritycustomization development to specialized Dynamics GP Dexterity SoftwareDevelopment Factory, or Great Plains ISV Partner. In Dexterity you can do anything you like withGreat Plains user interface, sometimes referred as GP fat client. Before taking Dex route, we recommend you toreview other options 2. Modifier with VBA. This tool is easier to program, and it couldbe given to VBA programmer. If you haveexperience programming pre .Net Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 in Visual Basic you should feel yourself comfortable to add scriplets in VBA. Modifier allows you to move existing and addnew fields to existing Great Plains forms, where you could attach custom VBAscripts to program light Great Plains customization. In VBA you can even manipulate GP data viaold pre .Net ADO 3. eConnect. This tool is typically associated with ecommerce integration projects,where ecommerce Microsoft Visual Studio C# or VB .Net developer calls eConnectmethods to pull objects from GP as well as create new objects and transactionsor modify existing ones. eConnect coversmajor GP modules: SOP, GL, Inventory, POP, Payroll, Project Accounting to giveyou the idea. However eConnect doesnthave Batch posting functionality, where you have to deploy third party add-on:Posting Server 4. Recovering old customization and customizationupgrades. If you have legacy Dexteritycustomization, written and deployed on old Great Plains Dynamics version: 5.0, 5.5,6.0, 7.0, 7.5, for example and you are planning to update Dynamics GP versionto 8.0, 9.0 or current 10.0, you will need to re-haul Dex code to fit. You should have Dynamics.dic or Extract.dicdictionary file with the source script in it in this case you are ready tolocate Dexterity programming partner to do the job
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