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Seriously, I wasn't planning on doing any more articles on the home page - at least not for now. But you have to admit this one is compelling. To find the version of the Microsoft Office Web Components running on your system, 1. Right-click on any metric graph currently being displayed on your home page. Office Web Components options Choose the About... option to continue. 2. You will now see the version number of the Office Web Components installed and being used with Microsoft Dynamics GP. Office Web Components version If you have any questions on a specific version, please see my article Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 and Office Web Components  for more information. Until next post! MG.- Mariano Gomez, MVP IntellPartners, LLC http://www.intellpartners.com/

Part 2 of 2 - Changing the metrics properties on the Microsoft Dynamics GP home page. In Part 1 of the series  I showed a couple cool things that can be accomplished on the Microsoft Dynamics GP home page with metrics and changing graph properties and so on. Today, I will explore two more features that I think will make you fall in love -- ok, let's not get carried away -- with the Microsoft Office Web Components , and in particular the Chart Control: the Toolbar and Command and Options selections. Toolbar The Toolbar option enables a graphical toolbar above the metrics being displayed. Office Web Components - Toolbar option Enabled Toolbar option Now, with the toolbar enabled, you have access to some of the elements discussed in the previous article and more. You can change the graph layout and some of the Data properties as shown in the previous article. Command and Options Of all the options presented, the Command and Options is one of my favorites as...

Part 1 of 2 - Changing the metrics properties on the Microsoft Dynamics GP home page. In this series I wanted to surface a little known secret about the standard Microsoft Dynamics GP Home Page metrics: you can change the graph properties...no coding required! In fact, there are many graph properties that can be changed. Gross Profit for the Past 12 Months sample metric Microsoft Dynamics GP makes use of the Office Chart Control, a component of the Microsoft Office Web Components  to display the metrics that you have become accustomed to see on the home page -- see my article Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 and Office Web Components  for more information on the different versions supported. When you right-click on the metric of your choice a menu becomes available that will allow you to choose from a number of options, as shown below. Today we will be looking at the Data properties. Data Command and Options window - Data Source tab The Data option pres...

A recurring question throughout these days of upgrades to Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 is what version of Microsoft Office Web Components (OWC) is compatible with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010. In this article, I will address this question by explaining what is OWC and how it is used. OWC are a collection of Component Object Model (COM) controls for publishing spreadsheets, charts, and databases to the Web and are required to support the display of metrics on a Microsoft Dynamics GP home page. These components have been released with various versions of Microsoft Office, as shown below. Source: OfficeBlogs.net The latter is important to understand, because the Microsoft Dynamics GP home page is an HTML rendering done from Dexterity code with the aid of some XSL and cascading stylesheets. The HTML code embeds calls to OWC functions via JScript to display the metrics. The current supported version of OWC is Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components for versions 9, 10, and 2010. So now that we have...