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SQL view for sales quantities by item by year

Ever since I published my view for sales by item by year I started receiving requests for the same type of view showing quantities instead of amounts. There are two ways of doing this, once from inventory and another from sales.  Hard to say which is the best, as I have seen arguments for both, […]

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SQL view for customer yearly totals in Dynamics GP

As a follow up to my SQL view for vendor yearly totals, here is something similar for customers. I have combined sales less credits/returns in one column, please take a look at the notes above the code (on lines 5 through 16 below) to see more details about the logic I am using. The code […]

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SQL view for vendor yearly totals in Dynamics GP

There has been a lot of talk lately about the year end close Payables and Receivables. I feel like I have spent the last week or two justifying my reasoning for not needing to perform the year end close for Payables and Receivables to many of my customers and blog readers. (For more on this, […]

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Happy New Year – 2012

I found out yesterday that I have been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for Dynamics GP for another year. This makes the 8th year in a row for me. I am very honored to get this award again and would like to thank everyone that reads my blog – this would not be possible without you! […]

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SQL view to show monthly totals for Dynamics GP Vendors

In response to a reader request, I have created this new view based on my Vendor Yearly Totals view that will show monthly totals for your Dynamics GP Vendors for all years. This view will show both the numbers and names of the months and assumes that you have 12 periods corresponding to the calendar […]

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Decisions Fall 2011 – GP Day is today

Come talk to us about new features in GP Reports Viewer at MSDynamicsWorld’s Decisions Fall 2011 today. I will be there all day along with our senior developer and SRS expert Mickie Stamm.

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Protect your investment in Microsoft Dynamics GP

MSDynamicsWorld.com has just published my new article called Protect Your Investment: Five Things You Must Document in a Microsoft Dynamics GP Solution. For more of my articles on MSDynamicsWorld, take a look at my profile page. And while you’re there, don’t forget to register for Decisions Fall 2011.

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SQL view for SOP email setup in GP 2010

I am starting to work with emailing SOP documents using Dynamics GP 2010 and new functionality that we are going to be releasing in an upcoming build of GP Reports Viewer. It’s pretty cool stuff, however, as I am working with customers to set this up, we’re finding that out-of-the box GP does not have any […]

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Holiday status poll

The holidays are coming up, so I thought I would start a little poll to see what’s happening this year…be truthful!

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SQL view for bank deposits and receipts in Dynamics GP

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, […]

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Sign 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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