Renaming Microsoft Dynamics GP FRx Menu Option To Management Reporter

Microsoft Dynamics GPThe FRx Reporter tool is being retired very soon. It’s replacement, Management Reporter, has been available to all customers for a while and is the only option for new ones implementing Microsoft Dynamics GP.

FRx has an entry on the Reports menu (Reports » Financial » FRx) in Microsoft Dynamics GP which can be replaced with Management Reporter. Unfortunately, this is a per user setting but does change the menu in all companies for each user who makes the change.

To change the name of the FRx menu, right click on the toolbar and then click Customise…;

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How To Deploy Excel Reports In Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2

Microsoft Dynamics GPWay back in February I did a post on how to deploy the SSRS reports to Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2 and meant to follow up with a post on how to deploy the Excel Reports, but got sidetracked and then forgot. Well, I’m correcting that today.

To deploy the reports you need to open the Reporting Tools Setup window (Tools » Setup » System » Reporting Tools Setup) where you can deploy reports and see what has already been deployed;

Reporting Tools Setup - Excel tab

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Controlling Support Debugging Tool Manual Logging Mode

Microsoft Dynamics GPToday, on the Developing for Dynamics GP blog, David Musgrave continues his series of posts on the Support Debugging Tool which is definitely worth following.

If you haven’t read the first post on understanding logging modes take a read here.

The series continues with a post on controlling manual logging modes in the Support Debugging Tool.

Mark Polino’s Weekly MS Connect Suggestion – Auto Deposit of Cash Receipts in Bank

Microsoft Dynamics GPContinuing Mark Polino’s weekly DynamicAccounting.net series of posts recommending an MS Connect suggestion.

This weeks is a vote on adding an option to allow bank deposits to be automatically posted in Bank Reconciliation; this would be of great benefit if you’re receiving lots of individual payments hitting your bank account such as standing orders or BACS transfers which at present requires someone to post each one manually.

If you’d be interested in seeing this change made, please go to Connect and vote.

Microsoft Surface Announced

MicrosoftAs recently rumoured, Microsoft announced a self-built tablet yesterday adding to their current hardware line which includes mice, keyboards and the XBox 360.

Branded the Microsoft Surface it is available as both Windows RT, arm powered 32 or 64GB memory, or as the Windows 8 Pro, powered by an Intel i5 and with either 64 or 128GB of memory with both versions coming with built in Micro SD slot for more, exchangeable memory;

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Unknown Error Creating Demo Company

Microsoft Dynamics GPThis is another mea culpa post; I’ve been doing enough of them I’m thinking of giving them their own tag.

I was created a virtual machine with the Fabrikam, Inc. demo company in it. When GP Utilities was processing I got this error pop up;

Microsoft Dynamics GP Utilities - An unknown error occurred when initialising tyhe conversion.

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SSRS GL Trial Balance Returning No Data

Microsoft Dynamics GPI was doing some testing to compare the SSRS Trial Balance against the standard report version but ran into a problem straight away when I found the SSRS version returned no data.

A quick search online found me this post SSRS: GL Trial Balance Summary report returns no data – Follow Up by Mariano Gomez where he discussed the exact problem I had encountered.

As Mariano says this has been fixed in the upcoming SP3 but for now there is a Knowledge Base article covering a workaround which is to alter the stored procedure (seeglPrintSRSTrialBalance) which is used for returning the data: GL Trial Balance SRS Reports return no data using Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Mark Polino’s Weekly MS Connect Suggestion – Copy and Paste from Excel to the GL Transaction Entry Window

Microsoft Dynamics GPContinuing Mark Polino’s weekly DynamicAccounting.net series of posts recommending an MS Connect suggestion.

This weeks is a vote on allowing a Journal to be composed in Microsoft Office Excel and then copied and pasted into the General Ledger Transaction Entry window. This functionality would be useful for those people who don’t have Integration Manager – Financials.

If you’d be interested in seeing this change made, please go to Connect and vote.