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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 youcustomizing tools orientation session with some emphasis on their evolution, asGreat Plains ERP is traditional and matured system with great implementationhistory and excellent future positions: 1. Microsoft Dexterity, also known as Great PlainsDexterity. This tool is semi proprietaryinstrument and in order to program Dexterity, you will need to know Sanscriptprogramming language with emphasis on Dex cursors, plus you should knowDynamics GP architecture, which in turn has Dexterity as its fundament. If you make small research and review GPworkstation files, you will find Dynamics.dic business logic metadata,Dex.ini is Dexterity setup for this specific user, these and other fileswould give you the idea on Dexterity importance in current Dynamics GP version10.0 and all the earlier versions. We donot recommend you to take Dexterity training, unless you are facing huge GP developmentproject internally, instead, contact one of Great Plains Technology partners,who is in Dexterity Source Code program, in other words, who has access toDexterity original sources and scripts 2. eConnect. This tools is great for internal IT programmers, familiar with SQLstored procedures, XML, C# or VB.Net. When you need to create GP master records: customer, vendor, employee,GL account, Address, or so-called Work Transactions: Sales Order ProcessingInvoice, Purchase Order, Customer Payment you can do this by deployingeConnect methods, and it will be exactly the same as if you would program themin Dexterity, or enter directly in GP user interface. eConnect doesnt post Dynamics GP batches,but this is something that was initially designed to be under GP usercontrol. If you need to post batchesdirectly from your ecommerce eConnect application, please review Alba SpectrumPosting Server 3. VBA / Modifier. Dynamics GP Modifier module allows you to modify existing forms, byadding buttons or edit fields on them, then you can attach VBA scripts to newobjects, and even write records to GP tables by opening VBA ADO connection toSQL Server GP company database. Thistool, obviously being primitive, allows you, however, to customize GP userinterface reasonably quick and doesnt really require special training, assumingthat you are familiar with VBA programming 4. Extender. This tool is in fact a shell, written in Dexterity, it allows you toextend GP screens with the tool, which doesnt require you to be aprogrammer. If you have relativelymoderate Great Plains modification project, you should review Extender,assuming that you have internal IT people, ready to do it
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