The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The sixteenth Feature of the Day covered is Workflow Email Notifications; I have a PowerPoint from Microsoft, but I can’t find the related blog post.

There is a new Workflow Setup window where workflow emails can be enabled and configured:

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The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The fifteenth Feature of the Day covered is Workflow History. The new Workflow system in Microsoft Dynamics GP2013 R2 provides a way to view and track the workflow of a document, providing an audit trail for all workflow actions.

The history includes all actions that have been taken for the workflow, and any action that is pending. It shows the who, what, when, and any comments associated with the action.

The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The fourteenth Feature of the Day covered is Document Attach – Scan. Document Attach was introduced in Dynamics GP 2013 and with every service pack has been further enhanced; Dynamics GP 2013 R2 is no exception with the introduction of a Scan feature.

The Scan feature allows you to attach a paper document directly into Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 using an attached scanner (previously you had to scan using external software which made attaching scanned documents a two-step process; scan the document to get a soft copy onto the computer and then go to the Document Attachment Management window of choice and attach it).

Now, just load the document into the scanner and choose the Scan button on the Document Attachment Management window of choice, and the document will be scanned and attached in one step.

The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The thirteenth Feature of the Day covered is Default Sort Order for Checks.his feature gives users the option of defining a default sort order for printing checks in the Payables Management Setup (Purchasing » Setup » Payables):

Sort Options will be:

• Payment Number
• Name
• State-City
• Zip Code

This will remove the need to manually change the sort option at the time of printing checks. However, it would have been nice to also have the Vendor ID included in the options.

This feature is targeted at the following roles:

1. Accounting Manager
2. Accounts Payable
3. Bookkeeper

The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The twelfth Feature of the Day covered is Requisition Management Integration Points . Purchase Requisitions has been written to integrate with several other areas of Dynamics GP such as Doc Attach, Encumbrance Management and SmartLists:

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The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The eleventh Feature of the Day covered is Reprint Outstanding Transaction in Bank Reconciliation. The Outstanding Transactions Report option has been added in the Bank Posting Journals report list (Financials » Reports » Posting Journals):

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The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The tenth Feature of the Day covered is Workflow Calendar.

In the new Workflow system for Microsoft Dynamics GP2013 R2, each step in a workflow can be given a time limit which calculates a due date/time by which the task must be completed. The Workflow Calendar allows users to define standard working hours for the company and holidays; this calendar can then be used in calculating the due date/time of a task so non-working days or time does not count against the time limit to complete the task.

For example, if a task with a time limit of 8 hours is assigned at 4:00 on Friday afternoon, and the company’s working hours are Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm, then the due date/time for the task is set to 3:00pm the following Monday.

I’m liking the look of the new Workflow, although I do want to have a dig into the technical side of it. That said it does seem to have some good functionality with this calendarbeing useful (I’m assuming a little here) for reminders and reporting.

The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The ninth Feature of the Day covered is Identity Management – Scalability Groups. The Identity Management Scale Groups provides flexible deployment options and improved efficiency for multitenant web client deployments. Using scale groups, you can logically group the web client session host servers that have a common configuration and host the same tenants. The web servers shared by all tenants will then be able to efficiently distribute tenant load across the session host servers configured for that tenant.

This should make it a lot easier to work in a cloud deployment of Dynamics GP.

The diagram below shows a GP multitenant web client deployment with two scale groups configured:

This feature is targeted at the following roles:

1. Administrator

The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The eighth Feature of the Day covered is Default Fixed Asset ID From The Asset Class. Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 saw the introduction of feature which allowed the Asset ID to be defaulted in the same way as the Voucher Number. GP 2013 R2 has seen this feature extended further to allow each Asset Class to have it’s own Asset ID range defaulting.

In Asset Class setup (Financials » Setup » Fixed Assets » Classes) a class can be set to have a Next Asset ID which has a prefix and ID unique to the class:

I can see this being very useful to a number of my clients using Fixed Assets where they have a number of different asset classes where having different prefixes for the different asset types would be very useful.