SQL Script To Update EFT Payment Register Report

Pretty much every client we have of Microsoft Dynamics GP uses the EFT Payment Register Report; a number of the save the file instead of printing it as the report has been customised to generate the EFT payment file for upload to the bank.

The clients who do this are either those whose installations of Microsoft Dynamics GP predate version 10 when the EFT for Payables Management module was made available to the UK market or they implemented before the EFT File Format was enhanced to allow a CSV output.

While some clients have created or amended a file format since the above, not all of them have been willing to spend the time (or money) to make the change.

As such, when they copy live to test they need to amend the path to which the report is being output, to ensure that a live file is not accidentally overwritten.

To faciliate this for users who have automated the live to test restore I created a script they could build into the process:

/*
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
	SY02200
SET
	FILEXPNM = 'C:\BACS OUTPUT\BACS.TXT'
WHERE
	PTGRPTNM = 'EFT Payment Register'

The highlighted section is the path name which needs to be changed depending on where the test file is to be output.