SQL Script To Activate Horizontal Scroll Arrows

The Account field in Microsoft Dynamics GP is of a fixed width, but the maximum width of the account string themselves can be much longer than the field.

The solution Microsoft have supplied is an option which activates horizontal scroll arrows in the Account field:

This is activated, on a per user basis, via the User Preferences window (Microsoft Dynamics GP menu >> User Preferences) by marking the Horizontal Scroll Arrows:

However, if you have a lot of users, this can sometimes be a difficult message to disseminate.

An alternative I came up with for a client a wile ago was to create a trigger on the Users Master (SY01400) table which updates the field after a new user is created:

/*
Created by Ian Grieve of azurecurve|Ramblings of a Dynamics GP Consultant (https://www.azurecurve.co.uk)
This code is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Int).
*/
CREATE TRIGGER
	utr_AZRCRV_UpdateSY01400ActivateHorizontalScrollArrows
ON
	SY01400
AFTER INSERT AS
	UPDATE
		['Users Master']
	SET
		HSCRLARW = 1
	FROM
		SY01400 AS ['Users Master']
	INNER JOIN
		inserted AS INS
			ON
				INS.USERID = ['Users Master'].USERID
GO

If users have already been created, then the following script can be used to activate the horizontal scroll arrows for them:

/*
Created by Ian Grieve of azurecurve|Ramblings of a Dynamics GP Consultant (https://www.azurecurve.co.uk)
This code is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Int).
*/
UPDATE
	SY01400
SET
	HSCRLARW = 1
WHERE
	HSCRLARW = 0
GO

We actually decided to remove the trigger and apply the update script via a SQL Server Agent scheduled job which runs on a period basis (if I recall correctly, it was configured to run each evening at 2100 (avoiding backup jobs).