Day: September 24, 2015

I have had this script for quite a while and have used it a number of times for different clients when implementing the Inventory Control module in Microsoft Dynamics GP.

One client who was using Inventory was entering a lot of user categories, mistakenly entered the description into the Image field. In that case I did not know that they were populating the User Categories or I would have offered this script to them to save time.

To use the script you need a CSV file with four columns: User Category Value (the ID of the item you want to load), User Category Number (which of the user categories into which the row is to be loaded), Image URL and Description:

CREATE TABLE #UploadData
	(USCATVAL VARCHAR(100)
	,USCATNUM VARCHAR(1)
	,Image_URL VARCHAR(300)
	,UserCatLongDescr VARCHAR(300))
GO

BULK INSERT
	#UploadData
FROM
	'c:\temp\UserCategories.csv'
WITH
	(FIELDTERMINATOR = ','
	,ROWTERMINATOR = '\n')
GO

INSERT INTO IV40600
	(USCATVAL
	,USCATNUM
	,Image_URL
	,UserCatLongDescr)
	
	(SELECT
		LEFT(UD.USCATVAL, 10)
		,LEFT(UD.USCATNUM, 1)
		,LEFT(UD.Image_URL, 254)
		,LEFT(UD.UserCatLongDescr, 254)
	FROM
		#UploadData AS UD
	WHERE (SELECT
			COUNT(IV.USCATVAL)
		FROM
			IV40600 AS IV
		WHERE
			IV.USCATVAL = UD.USCATVAL
		AND
			IV.USCATNUM = UD.USCATNUM) = 0)
GO

DROP TABLE #UploadData
GO

You will need to change the highlighted line to the location of your CSV file. As always before running a script on live, test it in a test company first and have a good backup of your database.