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. What I have so far is only for version 2.0 and it may not be complete. If anyone has other versions, please let me know and I [...]
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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, [...]
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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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Vote for the top 100 most influential Microsoft Dynamics people
DynamicsWorld is once again holding their annual vote for the top 100 most influential Microsoft Dynamics people. If you’ve been inspired or helped by anyone you can show your appreciation by voting for them. The main voting page has a list of all the nominees and a bunch of links to the polls, but it’s a [...]
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Customer shipping addresses in Dynamics GP
Need to see a list of all the shipping addresses for your Dynamics GP customers? You can use the view below which pulls out the ship to address and the associated tax schedule, shipping method , salesperson, etc. To see other SQL views for Dynamics GP receivables data, take a look at the Receivables SQL Views page. For [...]
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Yearly Fixed Assets depreciation totals in Dynamics GP
Around this time of year we get a lot of questions about closing the year for the Dynamics GP Fixed Assets module, since you cannot run January depreciation until you close the prior year. And right after we start getting requests for reports of prior year depreciation. Here is a view that shows year to date, last year [...]
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Mark Polino interviews…me!
Mark Polino, one of the original Dynamics GP bloggers, a fellow Microsoft Dynamics GP MVP and book author, just published an interview with me about my book, Implementing Dynamics GP 2010. This was the first book interview I did and I was a little nervous, but Mark is a very good listener and knows just how [...]
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August 11, 2011


