I don’t believe anything has changed for MC since version 9.0. Are you looking for something specific?

-Victoria

Joe

-Victoria

Good call on doing all this in a test company!

I have not gone through this particular scenario before, I always make sure to make changes like this prior to closing the year. I am thinking that you need to ‘reclose’ 2011, but I am not sure if it is too late at this point. If you go to the year end close window, is it looking to close 2012? Or will it let you close 2011? If you can close 2011, you should. If not, then you may need to get Microsoft to open the 2011 year for you. They can do this as a consulting project and the cost depends on the size of your database and a few other variables. It may be the only way to do this with a 17 month year.

Another option may be to have a 5 month year and ‘rename’ all your prior years so for example 8/1/11 – 12/31/11 becomes ’2011′ and 8/1/10 – 7/31/11 becomes ’2010′ (and all the prior years move back 1). You can do this with the Fiscal Period Modifier that is part of the Professional Services Tools Library. This is also not free, but may be less expensive and easier than having MS open the year for you and you might already own the PSTL.

-Victoria

We recently changed our year end from July 31 to Dec 31. However, we already closed our 2011 year end in GP and created a new one called 2012, running from Aug 1/11 to Jul 31/12. I was able to change the historical period for 2011 to be 17 periods, from Aug 1/10 to Dec 31/11, after which I ran a “Reconcile” on the 2011 historical year. However, the transactions that occurred from Aug 1/11 to Dec 31/11 are not showing on the Historical Summary Inquiry….

Any ideas on how to properly make the change?

PS I did this all in a “test” company so none of these changes have affected our “live” file.

Thanks for replying to this. You have seen this on the Payables Transaction Inquiry window? Because mine has a column called IC with a check next to Intercompany transactions.

-Victoria

http://msdynamicsgp.blogspot.com/2010/05/weekly-dynamic-identifying-intercompany.html

Looks like the (#) symbol indicates an intercompany transaction.

I do not have code posted for a report like this, but you could take a look at the code posted on Ron Wilson’s blog to see if anything there might help. Alternately, you can try to troubleshoot your report – what is not matching the information in GP? What tables are you using on your report and where are you looking in GP to compare this?

-Victoria

I would like to know if there is a report that shows all outstanding purchase orders? I have develped an SSRS report from scratch, but the details given does not correspond to that which is on Great Plains.

Just wondering if you or anyone else knows the SQL scripts required to retire a fixed asset? I know there is a utility within GP to do this, however in my situation, i cannot use this to mass retire the assets i want to retire, as they all have different criteria, so it is not possible to group them.

Thanks

Matt

Yes, please post back with what this turns out to be.

Thanks,
-Victoria

I was hoping to come back with an answer to the puzzle – well, a more positive one. Not to be — just yet, anyway,

Yes, MR is much like FRx – the specified database is correct as is the company. I did create several brand new reports with just a few accounts on them and the Retained Earnings account amount still doesn’t appear. I even ran DBCC checkdb on the MR database. No good luck.

I’ve reached out to our partner. If you like, I will post back final results…

Thanks again –

Jack

I would first confirm the Retained Earnings (RE) account in GP. Print a summary trial balance and verify that the RE account shows up as expected. If it does, then the issue is not with your data, no reason to restore and re-close. In MR, confirm the report is printing against the correct company. I have not worked with MR much yet, but if it is similar to FRx, then there is a place where you specify what SQL database corresponds to each company in MR. If that is correct and you are printing the report against the right MR company, then the next thing I would do is create a brand new report to test this. Make it really simple – put the RE account and one other account on there. If the new report works, then something on the old report is a problem. Maybe it was converted or copied and something didn’t work right…. If the new report is not showing the correct data, then it might be time to have someone take a look at this together with you – maybe your GP Partner or GP Support.

Hope this helps.
-Victoria

Thanks for all the valuable tips and advice!

I have a strange issue that you may have come across before. We’ve recently closed the GL for several of our companies in testing copies of the respective company databases. Afterwards, we’ve printed the Balance Sheet from Management Reporter for three of the companies. The Report / Row / Column definitions in MR for these are essentially copies of one another. The detailed trial balance for each company shows the the Retained Earnings account has had the appropriate amount posted to it as of 12/31/2011. However, when we print the balance sheets, the Retained Earnings amount appears on only one of the three company balance sheets. I’ve poured over the definitions and have even restored one company DB and went through the year-end close process again. Same result: no retained earnings account / amount appears on the balance sheet report in MR. I feel I must be overlooking something very simple – but I can’t find it. Would very much appreciate some direction.

Thanks in advance –

Jack

Sounds like your new server has a different collation from what your old one had. If that is the case, while GP seems to be working, this could be causing additional problems besides what you’re seeing in Utilities and it should most definitely be addressed.

As to how to fix it… This is not something I typically work with, so I would recommend talking to Dynamics GP support to make sure that this is done properly.

-Victoria

Here I check collation name of GP DB=SQL_Latin1_General_CP1256_CI_AS

But my new server master db collation name is different, i didn’t find the same collation of GP DB.

How can i run my GP utilities .

Thanks for your kind words. I have not worked with HR integration, however, you might want to talk to eOne – perhaps their SmartConnect product can help with your needs.

Happy Holidays!
-Victoria