Developing for Dynamics GP weekly summary



Your Developing for Dynamics GP weekly summary is here! I have received possitive feedback from many of you on this weekly review because it presents some of the best articles available on the web on Dynamics GP development and integration techniques. This week's summary is no different! So let's get straight into it.

  1. Finding out how to call an existing report. In this article, David Musgrave reviews two techniques for calling and executing existing Dynamics GP reports from custom code. While I am not able to speak for Visual Studio Tools, these techniques are very useful when these calls are performed from Dexterity Sanscript. As an additional resource to his article, you may want to read my articles on Support Debugging Tool and DEX.INI.


  2. Sending Emails with Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) and Dexterity. It's always good when any of my articles get an entry on Developing for Dynamics GP. David takes a look at the technique I used on one of my projects to submit emails without the use of Outlook or Exchange.


  3. How can I identify the parameters of a procedure or function? This one is a wake up call for all Dexterity and why not, non-Dexterity developers out there. Microsoft offers a number of tools to trace existing code to establish how a Dex procedure or function call is made and parameters that are passed in in those calls. The key here: NO NEED FOR SOURCE CODE! In fact, the less you know about the source code, the better customizations you will develop, why? Because, not knowing what the original code does will force you to build more error handling and validation in your own code. Though, I must admit, working with source code has it's advantages. :-)


  4. Ever received an error "The stored procedure createSQLTmpTable returned the following results: DBMS: 12" exceptions"? David answers it here. Some of these pesky errors can be a bit difficult to troubleshoot. However, keep in mind that a DBMS error is a SQL Server related error condition in one of the many stored procedure operations executed in the backend, not a Dynamics GP error in itself. David shows a few troubleshooting techniques to get pass these issues.


  5. Chris Roehrich shows some nifty C# code for Passing data from a Business Portal Result Viewer Web Part to Dynamics GP Web Services. The specific example shows how you can remove a line item from a Sales Order using the UpdateSalesOrder method. The sales order number, line sequence number, and item number can be pulled off the Rich List Result Viewer web part and passed to the web services.
Until next post!

MG.-
Mariano Gomez, MVP
Maximum Global Business, LLC
http://www.maximumglobalbusiness.com/

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