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Ecommerce InformationMicrosoft Great Plains Customization Tools overview
by:
Andrew Karasev
Former Great Plains Code Dynamics/eEnterprise, and presently
Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains was at first designed in the earlier 1990th as the long
and standard
application with its proprietary tool: Great Plains Dexterity, written in C programming language as a shell. This was popular tendency those days compare with SAP ABAP or Navision C/Side. Great Plains has additional ideas info
platform independence and graphical platform independent interface (initially targeted to several Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows with good chance that one of them wish take market over and it did happen, including the acquisition of Great Plains Code by Microsoft). In this small article well give you revised summary
you can find previous publication in the last year posts.
Great Plains Dexterity. Adeptness is the architecture of Great Plains and it is really difficult to take it out of the picture. So well say that if you plan on production GP module or custom piece for reselling it on the market you should 1st consider Adeptness as a tool. Adeptness requires deep training and several experience you can not begin programming in Adeptness over night. So-called fat client of Great Plains is pure adeptness application, however info
itself since version 8.0 is MS SQL Server with several Adeptness specifics (DEW_ROW_ID column, for example).
Old Tools. These tools were popular in 1990th and relate to such now gift technologies as OLE, VBA scripting, etc. Please note that even as if C was considered as universal language custom scripts were targeted for light customizations and several C and VBA were targeted to modify fat client thin client and web interface were not best-known those good old days.
1. VBA/Modifier. Microsoft introduced VBA as scripting for light customization of Microsoft Office products Excel, Word, etc. Great Plains adopted it for its own needs. It tried to produce Dexterity/VBA hybrid and allowed Adeptness forms to be modified via Modifier (Dexterity application) and enabled modified screens to adopt VBA for its fields.
2. Time
for VB/Dephi. Borland was strong on the customization market this is why it as well includes Delphi. In Time
you can program Great Plains digital computer
as OLE server. For example you can have Great Plains Integration Manager integrate several companies data one-by-one with automatic work
in and off without operator intervention over night for example. As well you can deploy Time
to switch Adeptness modules (such as Intellisol APOP or Project Accounting) and include Adeptness Sanscript code into VBA scripts.
3. ReportWriter. We placed RW in this section because it is Adeptness application and is now actively replaced with new tools, such as Crystal Reports, SQL Reporting, XML & Html web business
New Tools. In XXI century development earth begins to bias toward thin and web clients and SQL scripting. eCommerce is a must for retail and wholesale nationwide businesses and Microsoft Business Solutions move with these tools:
1. eConnect. As good instrument for eCommerce developer it allows to create, modify and delete Great Plains objects customers, invoices, purchase orders, payments, inventory items. It has certain restrictions it can address core Great Plains objects (not thing
in former third party modules Collection Management, Customer/Vendor Consolidation, etc.). As well eConnect can not post SOP, AR, AP, POP documents posting should be done by operator in Great Plains. However you can deploy posting hold on
procedures, accessible on the market (through Alba Spectrum for example)
2. Extender. Lets see it in action in the following year. The idea is actually good and it allows non-developer to modify Great Plains screens and place custom logic
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Just about the author:
Saint Karasev is Chief Technology Officer at Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http://www.albaspectrum.com) - Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, Navision, Axapta MS CRM, Oracle Financials and IBM Lotus Domino Partner, serving corporate customers in the following industries: Part
& Defense, Medical & Healthcare, Distribution & Logistics, Hospitality, Banking & Finance, Wholesale & Retail, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Placement & Recruiting, Advertising & Publishing, Textile, Pharmaceutical, Non-Profit, Beverages, Conglomerates, Apparels, Durables, Manufacturing and having locations in multiple states and internationally.
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