Below is an old tip from one of the GP Reports Viewer monthly newsletters. In the past few months I have had to look this up several times, because I just cannot seem to remember the syntax, so I thought I would put it on my blog, where it will be easier for to find […]
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Emailing SOP invoices in GP 2010 made easy with GP Reports Viewer
Background / The Problem For many companies a long awaited new feature introduced with Dynamics GP 2010 was the ability to email SOP (Sales Order Processing) invoices directly from GP. Many of our customers have started to offer emailing of invoices to their customers and are seeing an increased number of requests for emailed invoices. However, […]
Read moreRenaming tables in Crystal Reports
From the May 2010 GP Reports Viewer newsletter comes a tip for renaming the tables (or views or stored procedures) on Crystal Reports. Some may ask why this in needed – I actually use this quite a bit in the following scenario. I often find that I am using one report as a template for another […]
Read moreCrystal Reports is not going anywhere
Are you using Crystal Reports with Dynamics GP? Are you starting to hear rumors that Crystal Reports is not supported with GP anymore? Don’t worry, Crystal Reports is not going anywhere. For more on this, take a look at my latest article for MSDynamicsWorld.com, The Good News for Users of Crystal Reports with Microsoft Dynamics GP.
Read moreCheckboxes in Crystal Reports
This Crystal Reports tip comes from the January edition of our GP Reports Viewer Newsletter. There are often times when a report is printed so that someone can go down the list and verify items or see where information may be missing. While it was a little more timely in January, at the time of the newsletter, confirming […]
Read moreSelective highlighting in Crystal Reports
The Crystal Reports tip from Flexible Solutions GP Reports November newsletter shows how to selectively highlight values in a list without having to write a formula. Let’s say you have a customer list with balances: Now what if you wanted to make all customers with balances of $50,000 or higher more visible? Here are the steps to […]
Read moreRunning Totals in Crystal Reports
Here is a tip from the Flexible Solutions GP Reports October newsletter on how to create a running total in Crystal Reports. Running totals are a great way to show totals that have a different calculation than a subtotal without having to write additional formulas. Let’s look at an example: You have a list of unapplied […]
Read moreHow to get next Monday’s date in Crystal Reports
From the Flexible Solutions’ GP Reports July 2009 Newsletter, here is a great new tip: how to calculate next Monday’s date in Crystal Reports. This comes up periodically when someone wants to have weekly columns on a report showing totals of something like sales, expenses or invoices due. So if you have a report parameter called […]
Read moreSuppressing blank lines in Crystal Reports
Here is the latest Crystal Reports tip from the Flexible Solutions GP Reports June 2009 newsletter: how to work with addresses. Dynamics GP (and probably many other systems) stores address components in separate fields, so if we look at a customer address window there are many individual fields that make up an address: It is entirely possible […]
Read moreDynamically change decimal places in Crystal Reports
The May 2009 Flexible Solutions GP Reports Newsletter brings us a tip for dynamically changing decimal places in Crystal Reports. This can be really useful for creating Sales Order Processing (SOP) reports for Dynamics GP, where GP stores the number of decimal places for each line item in the SOP10200 and SOP30300 tables. Here are the […]
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Crystal Reports service packs and versions
Here is a handy list for determining what version and service pack of Crystal Reports you are running: Crystal Reports 2011 2008 XI R2 XI R1 RTM 14.0.0.760 12.0.0.549 11.5.0.313 11.0.0.895 SP 0 12.0.0.683 SP 1 14.0.1.287 12.1.0.892 11.5.3.417 11.0.0.1282 SP 2 14.0.2.364 12.2.0.290 11.5.8.826 link SP 3 12.3.0.601 11.5.9.1076 11.0.0.2269 SP 4 14.0.4.738 12.4.0.966 […]
Read moreAdding watermarks to Crystal Reports
Here is the latest tip from the Flexible Solutions GP Reports Newsletter: how to add a watermark to your Crystal Reports. I am going to demonstrate with an example. I have created a statement report, but it’s a little bland, especially when there are only a few lines of data to show: First step is to […]
Read moreAlternating shading for lines in Crystal Reports
Here is a new Crystal Reports tip from the Flexible Solutions GP Reports newsletter. I have added an example with some screenshots to better illustrate. Want to spruce up your Crystal report a little by adding alternate color shading to the lines? Here is how. (Click on the screenshots to see them clearer.) As an example, let’s start […]
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September 18, 2012 

