Day: April 26, 2016

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 saw the introduction of the Workflow 2.0 (which was the subject of my fourth book. Workflow 2.0 was enhanced further in both Microsoft Dynamics 2015 R1 and R2, and is again being improved in Dynamics GP 2016 R1.

This time, the enhancement is a twofold one. Firstly, the Batch Edit lists have a default Word Template and, secondly, this can be emailed to the workflow approver:

The main features of are:

• Workflow Batch Approvals now have a default Word Template for the following edit lists:
• General Ledger Batches
• Payables Batches
• Receivables Batches
• Can be emailed to approver for complete information before approving

I think this feature will prove to be popular with those clietn using Workflow approvals as an approver will always want s much information before approving as possible. This will likely be of great interest when Workflow approvals are being used.

As mentioned in the previous post, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 SP2 saw the introduction of SmartList Designer and have been gradually improving it since. This new feature allows a user to create a new SmartList from a favourite, instead of just from a SmartList Object:

The main features of are:

• A user can create a new SmartList from a favourite using Designer
• The user doesn’t have to remove all extra columns from the default SmartList

This new feature will ease the creation of a SmartList Object simialr to an existing favourite instead of a copy of the default SmartList Object to which the favourite belongs.

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 SP2 saw the introduction of SmartList Designer. It was reasonably useful, but nowhere near as useful as SmartList Builder. Little by little Microsoft are making SmartList Designer more useful. Microsoft Dynamics 2016 R1 actually makes it quote a bit more useful by adding the ability to export and import SmartLists:

One f the problems with SmartList Designer was that you had to create the SmartList on the server on which you wanted it; you could not develop it on a test system or development system and if, as a partner, you wanted to give it to another client you had to recreate it. This is why I often created SQL Views and plugged them in rather than creating the SmartList in the Designer.

I’ll need to do some testing to see how good the export/import functionality is, but this feature may allow us to put together SmartLists on our development system and then export them for clients.

In Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R1 Analytical Accounting has been enhanced to add an option to allow users to be given access to all transaction dimensions:

This is a nice simple feature but one which will make maintaining Analytical Accounting so much easier. I have more clients using the old Multi-Dimensional Analysis than AA, with maintaining access being one of the sticking points so I may have to have a chat with them and see if this changes the equation.