Today's #TipTuesday post is a play on words, an upgrade tip. When upgrading Dynamics GP, during a test upgrade phase, consider renaming (slightly) the company names in the test environment.
Why?
Every single report printed from Dynamics GP will (by default, at least) have the company name printed on it. The vast majority of reports will look identical to the pre-upgrade environment, most times at least. That means it's difficult to tell the reports apart after printing them out.
So… my tip is to rename the companies. This saves users from handwriting on every single report they print! Easy peasy!
We are upgrading the 2 new servers which will be a new production server and a new test server. So, on the 'future' production server, all of my companies are renamed with an abbreviated name + "Upgrade P" for production and "Upgrade D" for dev environment.
