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There has been some movement on Dynamics GP related blogs since I last updated my links page.

Steve Endow was awarded MVP so I have moved him to the MVP section from the Consultants one.

And, obviously, the biggest news is that David Musgrave left Microsoft and founded Winthrop Development Consultants and is now blogging at the Winthrop DC blog.

David’s contributions to the Dynamics GP community are one of the main reasons why I started blogging (his posts were so damn useful I decided to offer back whatever I could), so I am delighted to see that he will be continuing to contribute to the community following his departure from Microsoft.

If there are other blogs out there I should have listed, please let me know.

We had a user recently who wanted to quickly see which users had access to which companies and the Security Roles which had been granted. While Dynamics GP does have a number of security reports, they are the standard ones which, while readable in the usual screen or printer output, cannot easily be exported to Excel. However, the client is on Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 and therefore has access to SmartList Designer.

While I could have done this entirely as a SmartList Designer report, I already had the majority of the SQL needed to generate this as a SQL View which SmartList Designer can access:

CREATE VIEW uv_PI_UserAccessAndGrantedSecurityRoles AS
SELECT
	['User Master'].USERID AS 'User ID'
	,['User Master'].USERNAME AS 'Username'
	,['User Master'].USRCLASS AS 'User Class'
	,ISNULL(['Class Master'].DSCRIPTN, '') AS 'User Class Description'
	,ISNULL(['Company Master'].INTERID, '') AS 'Intercompany ID'
	,ISNULL(['Company Master'].CMPNYNAM, '') AS 'Company Name'
	,ISNULL(['Security Assignment User Role'].SECURITYROLEID, '') AS 'Security Role ID'
	,ISNULL(['Security Roles Master'].SECURITYROLENAME, '') AS 'Security Role Name'
FROM
	SY01400 AS ['User Master']
LEFT JOIN
	SY40400 AS ['Class Master']
		ON ['Class Master'].USRCLASS = ['User Master'].USRCLASS
LEFT JOIN
	SY60100 AS ['User-Company Access']
		ON ['User-Company Access'].USERID = ['User Master'].USERID
LEFT JOIN
	SY10500 AS ['Security Assignment User Role']
		ON ['Security Assignment User Role'].CMPANYID = ['User-Company Access'].CMPANYID
			AND ['Security Assignment User Role'].USERID = ['User-Company Access'].USERID
LEFT JOIN
	SY09100 AS ['Security Roles Master']
		ON ['Security Roles Master'].SECURITYROLEID = ['Security Assignment User Role'].SECURITYROLEID
LEFT JOIN
	SY01500 AS ['Company Master']
		ON ['Company Master'].CMPANYID = ['User-Company Access'].CMPANYID
GO

Of course, the other reason I used the SQL rather than recreating entirely in SmartList Designer is that I can use this SQL in future, but a SmartList Designer is only usable on the system on which it is created as there is no import/export functionality.