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Downtime of MSDynamicsWire.com

Since yesterday evening we experienced serious issues with my portal www.msdynamicswire.com . The servers are hosted at www.hostnexus.com on a shared hosting plan. Unfortunately the service was a disaster. I have to literally communicate with them the whole day that resulted in no use. What I heard from them finally is that my site is taking away the bandwidth of their entire server after a 24 hours wait almost. Lot of my friends wrote to me asking for the reasons why the site was down. These are certain issues we experience when we go with a shared hosting provider. Then, I decided to call it a day with Hostnexus and immediately turned on to www.alurium.com that I heard from the people to be completely compatible with Coldfusion and much faster. We’re now in the process of migrating to the new host and we hope to be finally up and running by this evening or tomorrow early morning if things go well. I must thank my readers for their patience on this change. UPDATE: Now the servers

Tweet to expand your Reach

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In my earlier article, Now follow Dynamics GP Blogs on Twitter , I’ve provided the ways of following DynamicsBlogger . Since its inception, the Twitter account is attracting so many followers. Today what we can call a Twitter Age. We get to see most of Dynamics Players, be it Partners, professionals on Twitter. Doesn’t it sound good that Twitter presents a great networking opportunity for all of us? Definitely Yes. So, How can we go about finding ways to expand our reach in Twitter. I’m listing certain common tips for expanding our reach through Twitter. 1. Ensure You are tweeting on a regular basis with useful tips or articles about MS Dynamics 2. If you have any RSS Feed of your blog, You can automate the posting of it using certain Applications like Twitter feed . 3. Ensure you frequently check for other guys out there on twitter whose interest is MS Dynamics too. You can search them using Twitter search Find People. 4. Ensure you mark them to Follow and be followed by th

Dexterity and other Tools for Dynamics GP SP4 available for download

Follow this link in Developing for Dynamics GP Blog having the latest download information for Dexterity and other tools  compatible with Dynamics GP 10 SP4. http://blogs.msdn.com/developingfordynamicsgp/archive/2009/09/16/dexterity-and-other-tools-for-v10-00-sp4-now-available.aspx

Exchange Rate Entry Maximum Decimals

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I’m quite busy working on my new portal MSDynamicsWire.com in the past week that led to being slow in my blog writing and I hope my blog readers would excuse me for that. In this article I’d talk about a call that I received during this morning from one of my clients seeking a clarification on the maximum decimals allowed for exchange rate entry. Their query is what are the maximum decimals allowed in Dynamics GP while entering an exchange rate during transaction entry. Maximum decimals are critical especially for currency exchange houses or banking institutions where the foreign currency activity would be higher. A one decimal change would lead a huge variation in revaluation or realized gain/loss. The answer for the maximum decimals allowed for an exchange rate  in Dynamics GP  is 7 . Users have to be cautious in entering the decimals since any entry beyond 7 decimals would lead to a complete mess up of the exchange rate as you could see in the example above that a rate of 1.123

Announcing the launch of MSDynamicsWire.com

It’s finally live! Today MSDynamicsWire.com Beta version is launched after months long effort. The portal is dedicated exclusively to aggregate content happening in and around Microsoft Dynamics. Since it is launched as a Beta version, more development is due in the future months before we would see more enhanced versions. This portal makes use of ColdFusion as the base technology helping the aggregation much faster. Events section needs to be still added to each of the categories in the portal so as to have a one place to view the updated events information. The Portal web address is www.msdynamicswire.com Press Release regarding the launch of the Portal can be viewed at this link  http://www.prlog.org/10340248-announcing-the-launch-of-msdynamicswirecom.html PDF Version of the press release can be viewed here in this link  http://www.prlog.org/10340248-announcing-the-launch-of-msdynamicswirecom.pdf . 

CBM: Post Through PM

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Of late, I’ve been working on Cashbook Bank Management module for a client. As part of the setup, I marked Post through Payables management and post through General Ledger as you can see in the below screenshot. If you observe, the GL Posting date is set to pick up by Transaction. So, While testing the transaction flow of payments in CBM, everything was going fine until the posting of payment. After posting, when I got to see the Manual Payment Journal, I observed there is a work message that says below. “Batch Information is invalid. This Transaction contains errors. It won't be posted”   Then I went to see what’s the status in Payables Batch. The CBM batch that I just posted is again lying as a batch in Payables Batch. I tried posting the same and it posts fine without any errors. Now, its turn with GL Batch. Went to see if the GL posting has done at least. No, This is again standing as a batch in GL. Posting the same completed without any errors. This flow is the same fo

AA Posting Journal prints for every transaction posting

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Say you have Analytical Accounting installed in your system and assume you have multiple companies within the Dynamics GP Application. Now, You have activated Analytical Accounting in one or some of the companies and not all the companies. However, You’d see that Analytical Accounting Posting Journal prints every time you post a transaction in companies for which Analytical Accounting is not activated though installed. This is not an issue or a bug and it is by design. In order to avoid this coming up every time we post the transaction, we can go to Posting setup and unmark the AA Posting Journal in each series we’d want to avoid the same. Next time, you post a transaction, it’d not appear.

FRx6.7 Service pack issue

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Couple of days back, I was trying to apply service pack 9(6.7.0.9111) to my current FRx installation which was at SP5. I have Analytical Accounting Add-in installed as well. I downloaded the SP9 from customer source that has AA Add-in. Ran the setup and it looked to be going smoothly until the below error surfaced in the end. “ The form is not of a legal path” . When I click further it goes on to say below If I then go to Report Designer and try to open the same, I get Run-time error91. I have tried everything I could but it still remains the same. Then, came a great support from my favorite Dynamics GP partner forums, Greg Byer has ensured all he could do to help me get past the error. Initially, it was diagnosed that the error might be due to some DLL files not registering properly. So, I was guided to download a batch file from partnersource that is intended to tell us of any DLLs failing to register(KB 848210). However, this batch file looks to be more automated that we canno

Dynamics GP Blog Carnival – I

In the first week of August, I made a new initiative of announcing the Blog Carnival that will be published on September 3rd 2009. As I stated in that post, the idea is to effectively bring various interesting articles from bloggers blogging on MS Dynamics GP in Blog carnivals format. Unfortunately, I didn’t receive a single submission from anyone in the Dynamics GP Blog Network except few submissions that are irrelevant to Dynamics GP subject. Probably, not everyone understood it right or the original post making the announcement for submissions lost enough visibility. In order to keep this idea alive, I’m going ahead publishing this carnival choosing the articles from Dynamics GP Blogs network myself. Here is the Dynamics GP Blog Carnival – I dedicated to all of my blog readers. I’m starting this Blog Carnival–I by picking up the article from Developing for DynamicsGP authored by David Musgrave. David provides us a brief but interesting information about the Smartlist Alternat

Discontinuance of Microsoft Dynamics Mobile

Microsoft announced that it will discontinue the Microsoft  Dynamics Mobile – Server components and Microsoft Dynamics Mobile – Device components will be removed from Partnersource and the Microsoft Dynamics Mobile CAL will no longer be available for ordering effective August 31, 2010. The announcement can be accessed by partners following the link here . This strategic decision to discontinue the current development of Microsoft Dynamics Mobile is made in line with broad availability of partner-developed mobile solutions built on these or similar technologies. What it means for the customers and partners? Customers need to choose from Microsoft Dynamics Mobile solutions developed by other certified partners.

Updated Smartlist Dictionary released for bugs in SP4

Earlier, I reported in my post Couple of Known issues in Dynamics GP10 SP4 , some bugs that were discovered post SP4 release by Microsoft. Now, an updated smartlist dictionary must fix these issues, according to a blog post published on Developing for Dynamics GP. For more details on this Fix, Please follow the link here .