Author: Jen Kuntz

  • On my way to Fargo!

    I’m sitting in Toronto’s Pearson airport, waiting for my flight to Chicago, and then on to Fargo for the GP Technical Conference. My trip is not as long as David Musgrave’s but it does require customs and all of the fun that entails. THANK GOODNESS for the Nexus program! I was through security and customs in…

  • Report Writer Series – Toolbox tips

    I’m a bit behind in my blogging lately, time to catch up a little bit!  Today I’m digging into some of the lesser-used items on the toolbox, and finishing this topic up next week.  How can I tell these tools are not used much?  The answer is simple: I’ve seen a lot of ugly reports…

  • Adopting new GP2010 features

    I’m behind on my blogging this week! Usually, my weekends are my writing time, but instead of writing blogs, I was doing my own month-end and billings for January. One of the clients I sent an invoice to emailed me today via the new GP2010 EFT Remittance email functionality with my remittance advice for their January…

  • Report Writer Series – Don’t settle for ugly reports, Part 2

    Picking up from Part 1, now we are getting into tips and tricks for modifying reports. I am walking through a specific example of taking a report that was in text format (General Posting Edit List), converting it to a graphical report, and then modifying it to make it better looking! The starting point Here…

  • What happens when you hit the max Journal Entry Number

    This falls under the category of “Who knew?”! There is a long story as to why I even tested this in the first place, but it’s not very interesting so I will spare everyone the details!  Suffice it to say I’m evaluating some requirements for a client planning to add a significant volume of transactions…

  • Report Writer Series – Don’t settle for ugly reports, Part 1

    Now that most of the payroll year-end tax update season is behind us, it’s back to the Report Writer series of articles. Who is sick of looking at ugly plain-text edit lists and searching for the information to be reviewed? Have no fear, more useful and attractive reports are a few mouse clicks away! Lots…

  • New Year’s Resolutions 2011

    Happy New Year everyone! It’s January 1st, 2011 and, like many people, I take some time around the new year to look back on my last year and look forward to the new. It’s always fun to take a look at last year’s resolutions to see how I fared a year later. I’m not sure…

  • The cost of inefficient processes

    Last week I sat with a user at a not-for-profit agency. This user is an older semi-retired gentleman who has a fairly strong accounting background and is supposed to be working 3 days a week. They converted to Dynamics GP in October 2010 after using Simply Accounting for years. The Executive Director called me to…

  • The Support Debugging Tool is my new best friend

    I have known about the Support Debugging Tool for a while but have never had to install and use it at a client location. I took advantage of a recent client upgrade from GP9 to GP2010 to install it on all of the workstations while we rolled out GP2010. It has already paid dividends! One…

  • Remember me! New GP2010 feature

    In GP2010, a new feature was introduced to remember the user and company. I’ve seen a few blog posts about this; however, I have also seen some incorrect information being posted about this topic which I hope to clear up. What is it? There are two parts to this: Remember User and Password which automatically…

  • Issues with GP2010 and uninstalling

    I ran into a difficult situation at a client where we were unable to edit (add new features) to GP2010, unable to uninstall or repair GP2010 and unable to launch GP2010 because of dictionary version mismatches. This scenario involved issues finding the references in the registry to troubleshoot installations that I hope may help someone…

  • Do you want my business?

    After receiving some positive feedback on my recent customer service article, I thought I would continue with the odd off-topic article (defined as non-Dynamics-GP). I’m certainly finding recently a whole LOT of examples of shall we say “learning experiences” to draw from! Having recently moved, we are undertaking some renovations to the house over the…

  • Report Writer series – Formatting text

    Users who have modified many Dynamics GP Report Writer reports in the past have perhaps found that dealing with text fields can be a little tedious. Here are a few simple tips to help users modify those reports a little faster. Mass change the font on text-only reports When editing a “text” report or changing a…

  • How is your customer service?

    I believe that sometimes companies need to step onto the other side of the counter and view themselves from the customer’s standpoint. I don’t intend to post non-Dynamics GP-related things very often but today I had the good fortune of having three incidents worth talking about – two on the negative side, one on the…

  • Report Writer demystified – part 2 – other considerations

    My last post was the introduction to dictionaries and launch files for those new to Report Writer (or GP). This post is all about things to keep in mind before actually venturing into Report Writer to start working. It’s rather boring stuff but it’s important to protect the report dictionaries from becoming corrupt or damaged…

  • Report Writer demystified – part 1 – dictionaries and launch files

    This is the first in a series of posts about Microsoft Dynamics GP’s built-in reporting tool – Report Writer. However, I am starting with some background that is more general to Dynamics GP before I dig into Report Writer itself. Hopefully, some of these posts will add some new tricks to a report writer’s repertoire or give…

  • Find the right GL account with Aliases

    Is it challenging finding the right GL account to use when entering transactions? Are the same GL accounts used frequently on day-to-day transactions? Has the GL account numbering changed recently? Aliases may be useful in any of the scenarios! What is it? Aliases are a little-used field on the Account Maintenance window meant for an…

  • Let the User Date be your friend!

    How many times something been posted in Dynamics GP on the wrong date because the user forgot to change the date?  Let the User Date be your best friend! What is it? The User Date is the default date for any transaction window in Dynamics GP.  It will default to the system date when logging…

  • Tips & Tricks – Date Shortcuts

    Here are few quick and easy tips for keyboard lovers when it comes to dates inside Dynamics GP. On a date fields, the + and – keys on your keyboard will increment the date forward or backwards. Dates can be entered according to the computer’s date format without the year and without the slashes.  If the…