azurecurve

Deactivate All Reports (Except PM EFT Payment Register) In All Companies

Tuesday 29th Apr 2014Wednesday 27th May 2020 Ian Grieve2 minute read2 Comments

Microsoft Dynamics GP includes a large number of reports which will automatically print off when a transaction or batch is posted; and some postings produce many different reports.

When I implement a new client I typically leave them on during training with an instruction to identify which ones they want to use after go-live as I will switch off any I’m not told to leave on.

I used to do it the other way and tell people to let me know which ones they wanted switched off; however, this lead to all reports being left on and then it being mentioned a year or so down the line that they get all these reports printing that they don’t want.

So now, all get switched off unless I am specifically told to leave them on. As I’ve dealt with clients with many companies (I think the largest is 180 companies) this is not something I want to do manually.

Fortunately, the settings for whether the reports should print is stored in SQL table which means a SQL script can be written to switch them off in bulk.

Continue reading “Deactivate All Reports (Except PM EFT Payment Register) In All Companies”

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Coming Soon

Thursday 24th Apr 2014 Ian Grieve3 minute read1 Comment

The next version of Microsoft Dynamics GP, 2013 R2, is going to be released soon. I can hardly wait, but, unfortunately, I have to 🙁

The Dynamics GP Support and Services Blog have posted an article today outlining their intended blog post schedule where they are going to run through the upgrade process and all of the new features which are due in the coming version.

April 29 – Lifecycle
May 1 – Upgrade Planning
May 6 – Known Upgrade Issues
May 8 – Version Checks & Upgrades
May 13 – Database Upgrade
May 15 – Modified Dictionary Upgrade
May 20 – Upgrade Troubleshooting
May 22 – GP is upgraded – what’s next?
May 27 – Upgrading Web Client
May 29 – Tables Changes in R2 – Review the SDK
June 3 – Identity Management
June 4 – Azure Backups
June 5 – New Workflow
June 10 – Requisition Management
June 11 – OLE Document Attach
June 12 – Human Resource Time Entry
June 17 – Project Accounting Time Entry
June 18 – General Ledger
June 19 – Payables Management
June 24 – Receivables Management
June 25 – Bank Reconciliation
June 26 – Analytical Accounting
July 1 – Fixed Assets
July 2 – Sales Order Processing
July 3 – Inventory Control
July 8 – Purchase Order Processing/Encumbrance Management
July 9 – Email or Print any report in Word
July 10 – SmartList Designer 2.0
July 15 – Office 365
July 16 –Take Company Offline
July 17 – Ribbons in Desktop

Integration Manager – An Item With The Same Key Has Already Been Added

Monday 21st Apr 2014Saturday 13th Dec 2014 Ian Grieve2 minute read2 Comments

I was working with a client the other day with Integration Manager to import some purchase orders when we received the following error on some of the purchase orders:

5. 820909 Insert Failed 0. Seconds

DOC 4 ERROR: An item with the same key has already been added.

The vast majority of the documents integrated without problem. When we examined the documents which failed, we determined that those which failed were those which had a currency of Euro.

Integration Manager errors are typically very unhelpful and this was no different; the first thing we checked was to see if the PO Number existed in GP, but as we expected it did not.

We did some investigating and found that the Euro Exchange Rate’s Transaction Rate Default in GP was defined as Exact Date; I was able to update this to Next Date after which the integration stopped producing errors.

Integration Manager Bank Transaction – Unimplemented Cast From Btype ‘BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN’

Friday 18th Apr 2014Monday 19th May 2014 Ian Grieve8 minute read1 Comment

I’ve been configuring an integration in Integration Manager for a client recently to assist with an Intercompany Bank Reconciliation process. When we started discussing the integration I had taken a quick look at the sample Bank Transaction integration which ships with Integration Manager and had no problem.

As the project progressed and I created the Bank Transaction integration on the client’s server I encountered the below error:

Intercompany Bank Transfer - Transaction Progress

Show/Hide Error Message

Integration Log
Integration: Intercompany Bank Transfer - Transaction (ID: 66)
Action: None
Start Time: 25/02/2014 14:36:53

  25/02/2014 14:36:58 Source: IIntegrationEngine_Run, Status Code: 0    Opening source query...
  25/02/2014 14:36:59 Source: IIntegrationEngine_Run, Status Code: 0    Establishing source record count...
  25/02/2014 14:36:59 Source: IIntegrationEngine_Run, Status Code: 0    Beginning integration...
1:  GBP  Insert Failed 2. Seconds 
    DOC 1 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
2:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 2 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
3:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 3 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
4:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 4 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
5:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 5 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
6:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 6 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
7:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 7 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
8:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 8 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
9:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 9 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
10:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 10 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
11:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 11 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
12:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 12 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
13:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 13 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
14:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 14 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
15:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 15 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
16:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 16 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
17:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 17 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
18:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 18 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
19:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 19 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
20:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 20 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
21:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 21 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
22:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 22 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
23:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 23 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
24:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 24 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
25:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 25 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
26:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 26 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
27:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 27 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
28:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 28 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
29:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 29 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
30:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 30 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
31:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 31 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
32:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 32 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
33:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 33 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
34:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 34 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
35:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 35 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
36:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 36 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
37:  GBP  Insert Failed 0. Seconds 
    DOC 37 ERROR: Unimplemented cast from Btype 'BROWSETYPE_UNKNOWN'
  25/02/2014 14:37:12 Source: FinishIntegration, Status Code: 3    Integration Failed
  25/02/2014 14:37:12 Source: FinishIntegration, Status Code: 3    Integration Results
    37 documents were read from the source query.
    37 documents were attempted:
        0 integrated without warnings.
        0 integrated with warnings.
        37 failed to integrate.

Finish Time: 25/02/2014 14:37:12

Source Total: 37
Successfully Integrated: 0
Integrated With Warning: 0
Failed: 37

Completion Status: Completed
Integration Status: No Documents Succeeded

I fiddled around without being able to identify a cause of the problem and, while I was doing this, found that the 37 transactions in the file had actually integrated despite the error message (an error in IM usually means the transaction or line will not be successfully integrated).

I brought a copy of the Integration Manager back to my test system and ran it on there and all of the files integrated without error.

The difference between my test system and the client’s system is that I have Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2 while the client is still on Service Pack 1.

In the medium term we will be upgrading the clients system to service pack 2, but in the meantime we’ll need to make do with increasing the number of permitted errors and accepting that an error will be displayed even as the transaction is integrated.

Reports Print With Overlapping Text

Wednesday 16th Apr 2014Wednesday 18th Dec 2019 Ian Grieve3 minute read1 Comment

I had a curious one a few months ago (which I forgot to post). A client I was implementing Microsoft Dynamics GP for encountered a problem whenever they printed a report; all of the text was overlapping:

If a document was printed from Microsoft Word it was fine; if a GP report as printed to XPS and then sent to the printer from there then it was also fine. It was just the reports printed directly from Microsoft Dynamics GP which had the overlapping text problem.

Doing some more testing I was able to narrow the problem down further, from thinking it was all GP reports, to only the text based reports. Not having seen this problem before I thought a quick online search might find me an answer.

And it did; I found an old post from David Musgrave on the Developing for Dynamics GP blog where he covers how to change the font used for Text reports.

By using the information in David’s post to update the settings in the dex.ini file I was able to resolve the problem.

I added the following lines to the dex.ini file on each client (and left notes with the client’s IT department so they could do this on any new installations):

FontCourier New=Lucida Console
Tolerance=-1
MinMilHeight=100

Stop Windows Server 2012 Server Manager Loading Automatically

Monday 14th Apr 2014Saturday 1st Mar 2014 Ian Grieve1 minute read1 Comment

When you log into Windows Server, the Server Manager opens automatically, but I rarely want to use it. In Windows Server 2008 R2 there was a checkbox on the main window which would allow you to dismiss the window and prevent it appearing again.

This option still exists in the Windows Server 2012 Server Manager, but it is no longer front and centre.

To prevent Server Manager loading automatically when logging into Windows, click Manage and then Server Manager Properties:

Continue reading “Stop Windows Server 2012 Server Manager Loading Automatically”

Integration Manager – Input String Was Not In A Correct Format

Thursday 10th Apr 2014Thursday 10th Apr 2014 Ian Grieve3 minute read3 Comments

After installing Microsoft Dynamics GP in a new test system, I then installed Integration Manager and tried to run an integration to test.

After clicking the Run button the following message popped up:

Integration Manager: The destination could not be initialized due to the following problem: -Input string was not in a correct format

This error is typically one seen when Microsoft Dynamics GP is not running (I’ve seen it at a few clients running Citrix when they have Integration Manager running on one server and Microsoft Dynamics GP on another), but I had Microsoft Dynamics GP open in the background.

I quickly realised the problem; I had imported some modified reports into GP which contained VBA and to avoid an error I had right clicked and used Run as Administrator when starting Microsoft Dynamics GP, but had started Integration Manager normally.

This meant the two applications were running in different states and Integration Manager could not see Microsoft Dynamics GP.

To resolve the issue I closed Integration Manager and reopened it using the menu in Microsoft Dynamics GP (Microsoft Dynamics GP menu » Integrate » Integration Manager); this is the way I typically recommend clients open it in order to avoid this problem on Citrix XenApp or other ways of publishing applications.

Trust Relationship Between This Workstation And The Primary Domain Failed

Wednesday 9th Apr 2014Saturday 1st Mar 2014 Ian Grieve2 minute read1 Comment

This perhaps isn’t the best time of the year to be posting about trust relationship breakdowns, but this is the only post I have ready to go (I have a couple of series of posts I intend to do soon).

I make quite a lot of use of virtual machines for testing and writing because of the flexibility and ease of taking a snapshot before doing something risky so the machine can be reset. After doing so one day, I ran into a problem I hadn’t seen before after restoring one virtual machine to a snapshot:

The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed

Continue reading “Trust Relationship Between This Workstation And The Primary Domain Failed”

File Not Found: VBA6.DLL

Monday 7th Apr 2014Saturday 1st Mar 2014 Ian Grieve1 minute read1 Comment

While VBA is falling out of favour with Microsoft Dynamics GP (by dint of not being supported in the web client) it is still useful for those clients who do not use, and have no intention of using, the web client.

One such client was recently installing some new XenAPp servers using Windows Server 2012; when they tried to open a window with a VBA customisation they received the following error:

File Not Found: VBA6.DLL

Fortunately, Beth Gardner posted the answer to the Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Cashbook Bank Management – Value Exists In The PM_Key_MSTR Table

Friday 4th Apr 2014Saturday 22nd Mar 2014 Ian Grieve1 minute read1 Comment

A client had an odd error with the Cashbook Bank Management module the other day when trying to enter a deposit; the following was printed on the exception report when trying to post the transaction:

I did some digging around and found that the Next Voucher Number field in Payables Management Setup – Options (Microsoft Dynamics GP menu » Tools » Setup » Purchasing » Payables Setup) was blank.

I set a new value in the Next Voucher Number field and the deposit could be posted without problem.