Author: Melissa Dobkins

Missing Quick Links After a Dynamics GP Upgrade

A Dynamics GP customer reported users missing quick links after a Dynamics GP Upgrade on the home page. They tried to re-create them, but when they logged out and back in they were gone again. The SQL script below can be ran to allow them to recreate their home page.   — change sa to

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Remove Customer Experience Improvement Program Reminders from Microsoft Dynamics GP

Ever stopped long enough to look into how to Remove Customer Experience Improvement Program Reminders from Microsoft Dynamics GP?  Although they can be annoying, sometimes it’s more trouble than it’s worth to research how to remove them.  We will make it easy so you can stay focused on your work and get rid of these

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Dynamics CRM 2016 New Features: Navigation

New Navigation Menu With the new menu features, you can get where you need to go faster, less scrolling and fewer clicks.  Upon clicking on a work area tile (like Sales), you get a list of all the entities/items per section in the work area.   Administrators can manage the items under each work area,

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How to fix a transaction for a future date in Dynamics GP

It is easy to make a mistake when entering the date on a transaction.  If you don’t catch it the transaction will not post and will be stuck in batch recovery.  Open the Fiscal period for the year that is on the transaction. (Administration>>Setup>>Company>>Fiscal Periods.  Recover the batch and post the transaction.  Once it has

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The Best Computer You Should Buy to Run Dynamics GP

As a software professional, I often get asked questions about computer hardware.  Spending most of my career in the accounting software industry and being part of the team that designed and developed the product we now know as Microsoft Dynamics GP, I am commonly asked:         “What computer should I buy for

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Dynamics GP 2010 Historical AP Aging in SRS

Dynamics GP Historical AP Aging – SRS   After spending countless hours searching the internet and finally working with Microsoft – I wanted to share my findings on how to get the Historical AP Aging report in SRS to match what the GP version of the report has for balances. You must be on GP

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Dynamics GP 2010 Upgrade Paths

While working on a current customer that was upgrade from Dynamics GP 10, we ran into an issue regarding the following error ‘Unable to ascertain product version information’.  We ran through our normal steps of making sure there wasn’t a straggling company in the database.  That didn’t resolve it.  After some time consuming research, we

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Dynamics GP Inventory Valuation and the Historical Inventory Reset Tool

Maintaining accurate inventory balances and costs seems to cause a lot of headaches for users. I have been working with customers who were not watching the costs they were entering inventory adjustments, thus making their valuation grossly overstated. To resolve we decided to run the Historical Inventory reset tool. This was a customer that went

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It's Coming – Management Reporter 2012

The Dynamics Corporate Performance Managment team over at Microsoft has been releasing information about specific features in Management Reporter 2012 for the past 2 weeks. Here is a new set of links with more of the cool Management Reporter 2012 features: Rolling Forecast Headers Viewing dimension codes and descriptions Report group navigation changes Comments Distributing

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