Category: Dynamics GP

Time for one of those obscure issue blogs, that won’t affect very many people, but the odd person might find this very useful to clarify what they are or are not seeing happen (and give me a couple of years, I’ll forget, and find my blog post!). This story starts with a client, who requested…

A client of mine is implementing Dynamics GP EFT for Payables (yay, no more cheques soon!)… and I needed to modify the Remittance Form that gets emailed to the vendors when they are paid. If nothing else, I needed to change the title “Check Remittance” to anything but the US spelling of cheque! I did my…

This was a blog I was planning on writing earlier this year but the topic had slipped my mind. Earlier today I was browsing the forums at GPUG and one thread reminded me of this topic so I figured today’s a good time to get this post written while it’s fresh in my mind. The…

I was working with a new Dynamics GP user recently, and one of the issues that they asked me about was an error they received when they tried to post a cash receipt transaction. Error: “You cannot post. The transaction is assigned to a batch.” Many users would have seen this before and know immediately what the…

I lost an evening that I’ll never get back over something so stupid I wish I had just stopped to think about this issue a little more. The situation was this: I just upgraded a client from GP 2010 to GP 2015. I didn’t upgrade the test companies, because it’s a waste of time right? So…

Right on time, Microsoft announced the release of Dynamics GP 2015 yesterday (December 1, 2014). Awesome!  Tons of new features and continued advancement in the integration of data and possibilities for applications. As always, watch the Dynamics GP team blog for the most up-to-date information and new feature announcements.  I’m excited for a number of…

This is short and sweet – as I don’t usually post “sales” types of things and don’t intend to start now! It’s somewhat of a tale of two client scenarios, and advice to those who hear certain things from their clients and are in a position to recommend license options. I’ve got two clients right…

My last post about the good and the ugly of the Update Budget Lines feature had a continuing theme to it. I was telling the story of the client who mass-updated 650+ projects with a new cost category only to find the budget sources set to Specific didn’t get populated with the default “specific” GL…

The other day a client asked me if there was a way to mass-add a new cost category to all projects simultaneously. I didn’t know there was a new function to do this starting with GP 10, but a quick Google search resulted in a post from Mark Polino describing this exact thing. Wow. That doesn’t…

You read that correctly! Microsoft has decided to change the way they work with some of their utilities and tools. Previously there were charges to get access to tools or utilities like Customer Modifier and Customer Combiner (and Vendor, Account, Item etc.). On the partner side, we had to purchase those outside of the normal ordering processes (they…

A question similar to this came up in a forum recently, essentially the question was “Where can you change the description of a transaction from a Dynamics GP Receivings Shipment or Shipment/Invoice”? The short answer is, that it’s very well hidden but it is there, and most users don’t see it and generally, it stays…

What usually is a typical service pack install client visit started on the wrong foot.  I am installing SP2 for GP2010 plus related hotfixes for a client, and the last time I was here was in January for the year-end tax updates. While I was doing my usual preparation, before I even started the process of installing…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…