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----------------------------------------------------------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 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
In this small publication we would like to give youhighlights on RW reports version upgrade from technical perspective: 1. RW typical reports. Sales Order Processing Blank Invoice Form isone of the most popular. Here youtypically need to place your graphical logo on the top of the report header. The same should be said about Purchase OrderProcessing PO form. Plus, it is oftenthe case when you need to add new fields or take off existing fields from RMAging Report, GL Trial Balance. In thepast you would use RW for quick data extraction from Great Plains table,however recent versions: 10.0, 9.0, 8.0, 7.5 have pretty decent Smart List orExplorer, where you can export single table info into Excel a way quicker 2. ReportWriter dictionary version update. If we are talking about main product DynamicsGP, then dictionary file is Reports.dic, where you find all your so-called modifiedreports. Microsoft Business Solutionsshould have special list of RW reports, that are not-upgradeable and you wouldneed to rebuild them from scratch. Inour experience all reports are upgradeable, and the problem often lays inso-called Calculated Fields new version of Great Plains often comes with newversions of calculated fields (including names and functions, that they callretroactively), in this scenario we recommend to analyze old and new report andmake changes accordingly (either by adding old calculated field into newversion, or change report to use new calculated fields instead) 3. Alternative to RW. Here you should understand that such reportsas SOP Invoice have Great Plains interface, calling the invoice to be printed (thisis where GP calls the report with Invoice Number parameter) so, if you wouldlike to create nicer version of Sales Invoice in Crystal Reports you shouldbe ready to call it in separate parameter entry screen of CR. FRx is the tool of choice for Balance Sheet,Profit and Loss, Statement of Cash Flow and consolidated versions ofthose. SSRS is also catching up if youwould like reports to be deployed in web interface on MS SQL Server
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