About a year ago I published a view for a Checkbook Register and have received some follow up requests asking for a way to show the receipt details. Primarily this request seems to come from the need to see the difference in dates between the receipts and the deposits for tracking down possible bank reconciliation issues. I didn’t want to [...]
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SQL view for current Payables aging in Dynamics GP
Over the past few years I have had several requests for a summary current Payables aging report that can be easily exported into Excel. Yes, you can play with the Report Writer aging report to take out the headers and make it export to Excel, but sometimes there are other reasons for wanting a report outside [...]
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SQL view for user activity in Dynamics GP
There are many different pieces of code that I have seen for this over the years, but more often than not what our users ask me for is a way to quickly see who is logged into GP, what company, and when did they log in. While this can easily be seen on the User Activity window (GP | [...]
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SQL view for sales by item by month
Here is a new Dynamics GP SQL view in reponsse to a reader that liked my view for sales by item by year, but wanted to see the same thing by month. I am making a few assumptions (listed in the view comments), and am hard coding one year at a time (2011 in this example). You can easily [...]
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SQL view for sales by item by year
I had a request from a blog reader for a view that shows sales of items by year. This seemed like pretty useful code to create, so I put the following view together. I am making a few assumptions (listed in the view comments), and am hard coding years from 2005 through 2011. You can easily change the years or [...]
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Management Reporter versions
I am starting to do some work with Management Reporter, so I thought it would be useful to have a list of the versions for various service pack levels. If anyone has other versions, please let me know and I will update this list. Management Reporter 2.0 SP 1 FP 1 SP 2 SP 2 [...]
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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Implementation – now on Kindle!
Yes, you read that right – my Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Implementation book is now on Kindle! I have been thinking about getting a Kindle for a while, and have admired the few I have seen owned by friends and family, but there was no compelling enough reason for me to get one. Until now, [...]
Read moreSign up for Decisions Spring 2011
MSDynamicsWorld.com is putting on another virtual show in a few weeks called Decisions Spring 2011. My company, Flexible Solutions, has been a sponsor at the last few Decisions events and they just keep getting better. All the Dynamics products have their own day, Dynamics GP day is June 15. You can read all about the exciting [...]
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Getting the name of a month from the month number in SQL Server
I was creating a SmartList for a customer recently and was using the GL11110 and GL11111 views in GP for monthly summaries of P&L accounts, but wanted to show the month names instead of period ID’s to make it a bit more user-friendly. I could have linked to the fiscal period setup table to get the period names, but [...]
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Dynamics Month at Packt Publishing
May is Dynamics Month over at Packt Publishing, the publisher for my Dynamics GP 2010 Implementation book, Mark Polino’s Dynamics GP 2010 Cookbook and a newly published Dynamics GP 2010 Reporting book. Now, I personally believe that every month is Dynamics month , but if you’ve been waiting to get your Dynamics books, now is [...]
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SQL view for all GL transactions in Dynamics GP
I have been asked a few times now to add unposted General Ledger transactions to my Posted GL Transactions view. Here it is. This view also excludes voided transactions and introduces new columns for transaction status and source doc. To see more information about GL tables in Dynamics GP, visit my GL Tables page. For more Dynamics [...]
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SQL view for last sale date of item
An interesting question came up in response to my last SQL view showing the last sale by customer and item. How do you show the latest sale of an item and who the customer was for that particular sale? This is a bit more difficult, as you have to make two passes through the data, first [...]
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SQL view for last sale by customer and item
When was the last time a particular customer bought a particular item? Here is a little view that will tell you. For other Dynamics GP views and reporting tips, take a look at my GP Reports page. Or check out the SOP Tables page for more details about reporting on SOP data. ~~~~~ CREATE VIEW view_Last_Sale_By_Customer_Item AS /******************************************************************* [...]
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October 6, 2011


