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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 ----------------------------------------------------------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
However if you look at earlier versions: 5.0, 6.0, 7.5 then you will discover that large number of existing Great Plains ERP installations have modifications programmed in GP Dexterity. Dex is still all-mighty and extremely powerful tool you will see Dexterity foundation in GP tables, forms, atomic stored procedures (deployed by Dex table indexes). Lets review the bullets of Dex customization maintenance:1. Dexterity source dictionary. Yes, this is typically first question do you have DYNAMICS.DIC file with your source code? This file should be given to you by your former GP ISV, Dexterity programmer or consultant. If you are not sure, you should review your software archive, communication with former GPS partner. If you can not get source dictionary, then Dex developer could try to recreate the code based on still available tables and forms, but of course you are not really happy to face this recreation and reprogramming2. Dex customization upgrade. You should invite professional Dexterity programmer to do this job as Dex is pretty proprietary and complex and it is not feasible to train your in-house programmer to do the upgrade. Code update itself is reviewing and comparing old and new forms and tables and making adjustments to existing sunscript code. If you customization was created really long time ago, something like in 1999 and earlier, then Dexterity developer should recommend you to switch several Dex cursors to SQL Server Stored Procedures to boost performance3. GP modification recovery. If you are trying to move GP from one server to another, if you are changing your server IP address or computer name, if you are reshuffling your network then you may encounter the situation when GP or its custom feature stop working. In the case when you are on MS SQL Server DB platform all you need to do is to review your ODBC connection settings, however when you are on Pervasive SQL or Ctree you will need to perform so-called location translation procedure, which requires professional Great Plains consultant, who has experience working with legacy versions of Great Plains Dynamics or eEnterprise
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