Month: June 2017

Customising Dynamics GP Workflow Emails: Increasing the Font Size in the Document Line Fields

Ian Grieve2 minute read4 Comments

Microsoft Dynamics GPAs I mentioned in the series index, on a recent Workflow project I had a few users comment to me that the text on the emails was a little too small to read. My initial reaction was that it was not possible to change the font size. However, while driving a little later, I had a thought of how I could tackle this.

In the first post of this series, I covered increasing the font-size of the email by wrapping a span test formatting tag around the text, but I found when doing this with the task assignment email which had the Document Line Fields mail merge on it, the formatting didn’t work correctly.

On this email I wrapped the span tags around all of the message body:

Message Setup

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Customising Dynamics GP Workflow Emails: Increasing the Font Size

Ian Grieve2 minute read5 Comments

Microsoft Dynamics GPAs I mentioned in the series index, on a recent Workflow project I had a few users comment to me that the text on the emails was a little too small to read. My initial reaction was that it was not possible to change the font size. However, while driving a little later, I had a thought of how I could tackle this.

The emails sent from Workflow are HTML emails, and HTML emails can have text formatting tags embedded within them.

This is a standard Workflow task assignment email which shows the same font size used on all of the emails sent by Workflow:

Workflow task assignment email

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Customising Dynamics GP Workflow Emails: Series Index

Ian Grieve2 minute read14 Comments

Microsoft Dynamics GPAs I’m sure you know by now, I do quite a lot of work with the Microsoft Dynamics GP Workflow module. On one of the recent projects I worked on, it was commented upon by a few users that the font size on the email was a little too small. My initial reponse was that it isn’t possible to change the font size. But, when I was on a loing drive a couple of days later, it occurred to me that it might be possible.

In this small series of posts, I am going to show how the font size on the emails can be changed, and the different ways this can be done, depending on the result you want.

SQL Snippet: Generate Row Numbers

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Microsoft SQL ServerIf you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I write a fair bit of SQL. I’m going to post some small snippets of SQL which I had to work out how to accomplish a small task as part of a larger script.

In thi spost, I am going to show how use ROW_NUMBER to generate a unique row number. There are three examples of code.

This first example, the simplest of the three, shows how to generate a unique number for each row in the recordset:

/*
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 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK).
*/
SELECT
	PONUMBER
	,ORD
	,ITEMNMBR
	,ITEMDESC
	,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY PONUMBER, ORD ASC) AS CUSTOM_ROW_ID
FROM
	POP30110
GO

The second example, shows a row number can be assigned to the lines of each transaction (this is accomplished :

/*
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 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK).
*/
SELECT
	PONUMBER
	,ORD
	,ITEMNMBR
	,ITEMDESC
	,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY PONUMBER ORDER BY PONUMBER, ORD ASC) AS CUSTOM_ROW_ID
FROM
	POP30110
GO

This final example, takes the first example and shows how we can select a range of row numbers (this is useful if you are selecting data to display on a page):

/*
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 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK).
*/
WITH POTRX AS
	(SELECT
		PONUMBER
		,ORD
		,ITEMNMBR
		,ITEMDESC
		,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY PONUMBER ORDER BY PONUMBER, ORD ASC) AS CUSTOM_ROW_ID
	FROM
		POP30110)
SELECT
	*
FROM
	POTRX
WHERE
	CUSTOM_ROW_ID BETWEEN 40 AND 59
GO

SQL Snippet: Generate GUID

Ian Grieve2 minute read0 comment

Microsoft SQL ServerIf you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I write a fair bit of SQL. I’m going to post some small snippets of SQL which I had to work out how to accomplish a small task as part of a larger script.

This fourth example is going to be, by far, the shortest pioece of SQL I post. It shows how to return new GUID:

/*
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 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK).
*/
SELECT NEWID()

I discovered this function when looking for a way to generate new GUIDs for a large Workflow implementation for a client where we are insertin the workflow steps via SQL rather than through the UI. This is very much not the recommended way of creating a workflow process, but the approval requirements resulted in a very large number of workflow steps and tackling it in this way, saved us a large amount of time.

SQL Snippet: Split String By Delimiter

Ian Grieve2 minute read0 comment

Microsoft SQL ServerIf you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I write a fair bit of SQL. I’m going to post some small snippets of SQL which I had to work out how to accomplish a small task as part of a larger script.

This third example, shows how to use the new in SQL Server 2016 string_split command:

/*
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 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK).
*/
SELECT
	value
	,ITEMNMBR
	,ITEMDESC
	,ITMCLSCD
FROM
	IV00101
 CROSS APPLY
	string_split(RTRIM(ITEMNMBR), '-')
WHERE
	value = 'SHP'

The example is part of the code I used when working on a client project a while ago; the client had a large number of Inventory Items and I needed to select a subset of the Items from the Inventory Master (IV00101).

When the clioent created their items they did so using a hyphen delimiter. Using the string_split command, I was able to separate out the segments of the Item Number and select only one of them in the WHERE clause.

SQL Snippet: Format Dates

Ian Grieve2 minute read0 comment

Microsoft SQL ServerIf you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I write a fair bit of SQL. I’m going to post some small snippets of SQL which I had to work out how to accomplish a small task as part of a larger script.

This second example, shows how to format a date in two of the most common formats I work with. Each example returns the date using the FORMAT command introduced in SQL Server 2012 and the more traditional method.

The first example, returns the date as day month year separated with /:

/*
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 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK).
*/
DECLARE @DATE DATETIME = '2017-05-31 11:59:59.000'

SELECT
	CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), @DATE, 103)
	,FORMAT(@DATE, 'dd/MM/yyyy')

The second returns the date in ISO 8601 format:

/*
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 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK).
*/
DECLARE @DATE DATETIME = '2017-05-31 11:59:59.000'

SELECT
	CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), @DATE, 126)
	,FORMAT(@DATE, 'yyyy-MM-dd')

Notepad++ Select Words Instead of Lines

Ian Grieve1 minute read0 comment

Notepad++Notepad++ is my favourite tool for writing blog posts, VBA and PHP scripts. I recently did an upgrade of it on one of my PCs and encountered changed behaviour. Prior to installing the update when I double clicked on a word, only that word was selected; however, after the upgrade, when I double clicked a word, the whole line was automatically selected:

Notepad++ line selcted

I did some prodding around in the Preferences (Settings >> Preferences) and discovered the resolution on the Editing tab. Unmark the Enable current line highlighting and click Close and the previous behaviour was restored:

Notepad++ - Settings - Preferences

SQL Snippet: Return Comma Delimited String

Ian Grieve2 minute read0 comment

Microsoft SQL ServerIf you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I write a fair bit of SQL. I’m going to post some small snippets of SQL which I had to work out how to accomplish a small task as part of a larger script.

This first example, shows how to return a comma delimited string of vlues from a select instead of the usual multiline recordset:

/*
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 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK).
*/
DECLARE @DOCDATE DATETIME = '2017-04-12'
SELECT (STUFF((
        SELECT
			', ' + RTRIM(CNTRLNUM)
        FROM
			PM00400
        WHERE
			DOCDATE = @DOCDATE
        ORDER BY
			CNTRLNUM
        FOR XML PATH('')
        ), 1, 2, '')
    ) AS ReturnString

The example above, is created against the Microsoft Dynamics GP sample database and returns a comma delimited list of vouchers for a particular date.

SQL Script To Get All Company Database Sizes

Ian Grieve3 minute read0 comment

Microsoft Dynamics GPFollowing on from my recent script to return the functional currency for all companies I hve revisited an old script which gets the size of database and updated it to work in the same way.

This script needs to be run against your system database (called DYNAMICS by default) and it will return the size of the data and log files alongside the total size of the database for all companies.

/*
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).
*/
DECLARE @SQL NVARCHAR(MAX)

CREATE TABLE #DatabaseSizes(
	INTERID VARCHAR(5)
	,CMPNYNAM VARCHAR(65)
	,DataSize VARCHAR(20)
	,LogSize VARCHAR(20)
	,TotalSize VARCHAR(20)
)

SELECT
	@SQL = STUFF((
			SELECT 
				CHAR(13) + '
				SELECT
					''' + INTERID + '''
					,''' + CMPNYNAM + '''
					,LTRIM(STR(CONVERT(DEC (15,2),SUM(CONVERT(BIGINT,CASE WHEN STATUS & 64 = 0 THEN SIZE ELSE 0 END))) * 8192 / 1048576,15,2) + '' MB'')
					,LTRIM(STR(CONVERT(DEC (15,2),SUM(CONVERT(BIGINT,CASE WHEN STATUS & 64 <> 0 THEN SIZE ELSE 0 END))) * 8192 / 1048576,15,2) + '' MB'')
					,LTRIM(STR(CONVERT(DEC (15,2),SUM(CONVERT(BIGINT,SIZE))) * 8192 / 1048576,15,2) + '' MB'')
				FROM
					' + INTERID + '.dbo.sysfiles'
			FROM
				SY01500
			ORDER BY
				CMPNYNAM
			FOR
				XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)'), 1, 1, '')

INSERT INTO #DatabaseSizes
	EXEC sys.sp_executesql @SQL
GO

SELECT
	*
FROM
	#DatabaseSizes
GO

DROP TABLE #DatabaseSizes
GO