GP 2013 error voiding checks

 

The Problem:

When you try to void a check in GP2013, you get the following error:

Batch batchname failed to complete posting. Use the Batch Recovery window to complete the posting process. When you click on the More Info button you see the following:

A save operation on table ‘ME_Void_Checks’ cannot find the table.

[Microsoft'][SQL Server Native Client 10.0][SQL Server]Invalid object name  ‘company database name.dbo.ME123506’.

Of course, the Batch Recovery window is no help.

The error occurs whenever you void a check, no matter which window you choose to void it from (PM or Bank Rec). This error is caused by the Safe Pay product. There is an old KB article explains the problem and shows you how to fix it, but it doesn’t fix it (it’s an old KB article).

ME_Void_Checks Failed Accessing SQL Data ... - Microsoft Support

After reading the KB article, I found out that the culprit is the Safe Pay product. Still, I went through the steps suggested by the KB article.

First, I tried Resolution 2 to fix it (because it was easier). I ran the Grant.sql script against the system and company databases, but it did not fix the problem.

Next I tried Resolution 1. “Run the installation routines again from the shortcut bar.” I did not have any such thing to run from my shortcut bar. I hunted around for a window that I could add to my shortcut bar, but none of them looked promising. I abandoned that effort.

The error message actually does tell us what’s wrong, the database is missing the ME123506 table.

The Fix:

Since the system couldn’t find the table, go to SQL Maintenance, select the Safe Pay product, and created the table. Viola! Problem solved.

Until next post!

Leslie

Problem with dual install of 2010 and 2013

Both GP 2010 and GP2013 are installed on my local computer. That machine is also the SQL server.

The Problem:

I created a new user  (USER1) in GP2013 and gave him access to the Fabrikam company, which was database TWO01. The system database was named DYN131.

• USER1 was granted access to Fabrikam.
• USER1 was a power user

Whenever I tried to log in as USER1, I was greeted with this:

I was definitely typing in the correct user name and password. Finally, I went directly to the SQL server and blanked out the password. The blank password didn'’t work either.

The Solution:

I checked the SQL Server to make sure USER1 was listed as a Login to the server and was mapped to the both the TWO1 database and the DYN131database. No problems there. I then checked the DYN131 and TWO1 databases to confirm USER1 was a member of the DYNGRP database role for both databases.No problem there either.

Since I needed to change something, I selected USER1 and mapped him to the DYNGRP of the TWO database. The TWO database is the sample company for the GP2010 installation. That’s all I did; USER1 was not listed as a user for the TWO database.

Solved. Now, USER1 could log in to the sample company created in the GP2013 installation.

Go figure.

Until next post!

I want to be on Doug Pitcher’s list! Vote for me!

I know the fervor of the DynamicsWorld “top” 100 list is everywhere, but there is a far more prestigious list to aspire to. I am of course talking about the 2013 version of Doug Pitcher’s OFFICIAL 100 most famous, awesome and totally influential Dynamics people for 2012.

The list is so funny and honest, I don’t know how he comes up with this stuff, remarkable!. You will laugh out loud reading it, it’s that good.

I’ve been proud to be on it, and I hope I can cut the muster again this year.  And, dah, David Musgrave is on the list! That tells me for sure that Doug’s list is the best!

I don’t think Doug has an official ‘voting’ poll, but should you have the chance to talk, e-mail, text, twitter, Facebook, Linked in . . .  him, put in a good word for me

Keep up the good work Doug!

Until next post!

Leslie

Vote for David Musgrave–2013

I am in full agreement with Jivtesh. Though I think this whole 'list' thing is nothing more than a brilliant marketing idea of Dynamics World, still, to not have David Musgrave on the list should only CONFIRM IT IS A FRAUD.

C'mon people, we know who the superstars are. We do not need some web site determining  the best of the best. I think we all know that it's David Musgrave, and it has been for years.

But, if it's a vote that they need, vote for David and vote often. Even if it is a marketing scheme, I'll buy in just to get the right man at the top of the list.

Until next post!

Leslie

Review of Developing Microsoft GP Business Applications

Wow!

I am honored that my book, Developing Microsoft GP Business Applications is being reviewed in detail by Ian Grieve. I just learned of this today, he has 5 parts already reviewed. The reviews start here: http://www.azurecurve.co.uk/2013/02/review-of-developing-microsoft-dynamics-gp-business-applications-part-1/

Ian is completely independent and I will definitely be reading his reviews and be able to make the book better because of them. I've only read the 5th article, and am so very impressed by his thoroughness and honesty.

He talks about what's good, and what could be improved, I am elated to learn that someone so exceptional is taking this much time reviewing my book!

Thank you Ian!

Until next post,

Leslie

Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack error

The Problem
Here’s the scenario. You have just installed a service pack. When you launch GP 2013, you are told you need to run Utilities. You launch Utilities, but oddly, it doesn’t find an existing instance of GP 2013. So, you just hit next and it moves along. Suddenly, the error pop’s up telling you:

“A system database name was not supplied. Run a repair of the Microsoft Dynamics GP installation”

The fact that it was trying to create a new system database makes a little more sense now. Next, you dutifully launch Control Panel and begin to run the Repair routine. Right at the beginning of the Repair process you get another error:

           “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”

Fabulous, you’ve seen this error before and it’s never pretty. We used to see it using Integration Manager and it was sometimes hard to fix. You’ll be delighted to know that this is a known error with an easy fix.

This situation comes up if you install the same service pack twice. The first time you install it, everything works perfectly, when you re-install, it you have the above problems.

The Solution
The fix for this is explained by Sara Purdy on the Microsoft Dynamics GP Support and Services Blog. Always go there first if you have any problems in Dynamics GP, there you will find some really exceptional advice.

The actual posting is called (deep breath here) Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 .MSP Patch Files Removing Information from Dex.ini and Registry.
All of the meaty solution information below was lifted directly from Sara’s  post. I’ve added some editorial comments for those of us (like me) who may need just a little more information to pull this off.

The culprit, as identified by Sara Purdy.

We have identified an issue with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 where the .msp files are removing registry entries and part of the Pathname= line in the Dex.ini when you RE-APPLY a patch. The first install of the patch works fine. The issue comes into play if you reapply the patch again on either a single instance or multi-instance. The Country and System Database Name get blanked out in the registry. The Pathname= line in the Dex.ini gets modified.

Here's the registry path:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Business Solutions\Great Plains\v 12.0\1033\DEFAULT\SETUP

Bad: The broken Registry looks like this:

Good: The Fixed Registry looks like this:


Bad: The Dex.ini file looks like this:

Good: The fixed Dex.ini file looks like this:

Of course, you will use the name of your system database, whatever it is. Yours will look like this: Pathname=your_system_database/dbo/

After you fix the registry and your Dex.ini file, you will need to re-apply the service pack. This, you have to do from the command line (what fun!).

The Second part of the Solution:
These are the instructions from Sarah Purdy’s post:

The current workaround when re-applying the .msp to a specific instance of GP 2013 is to do the following:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.

2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 and later versions

32-bit environment
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Business Solutions\Great Plains\V12.0\1033\your_instance_name\SETUP

64-bit environment
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\
Business Solutions\Great Plains\V12.0\1033\your_instance_name\SETUP

3. Expand the folder for the instance of Microsoft Dynamics GP you want to patch.

Note The DEFAULT folder is for the default installation. Replace V12.0 with your version of GP. The Inst01 folder is for the second instance of Microsoft Dynamics GP. For example, if you want to patch the second installation, expand the Inst01 folder.

4. Click the SETUP folder, double-click the Product Code, and then copy the Value data field’s value.

5. Exit Registry Editor.

6. Open up a Command Prompt by right-clicking on it and selecting Run As Administrator.

7. To install the .MSP file, type the following, and then hit Enter.

---

C:\updatename.msp /n {E979C594-95F9-4E3A-985D-A1DFDF403227}

---

(You can ‘Paste’ in the command line screen by right clicking next to where you want the data, and then choose ‘Paste’)

Note: Replace "C:\updatename.msp" with the path to the .MSP file and the name of the .MSP patch file. Replace "{E979C594-95F9-4E3A-985D-A1DFDF403227}" with the ProductCode value that you copied in step 4.

The registry will look like this for GP2013:

The current workaround when re-applying the .msp to all instances of GP 2013 on a machine is to do the following:

1. Open up a Command Prompt by right-clicking on it and selecting Run As Administrator, type in the following, and then hit Enter.

---

    msiexec.exe /p C:\updatename.msp

---

Note: Replace C:\updatename.msp with the path to your .MSP file and the name of the .MSP patch file.

Example:
msiexec.exe /p C:\ MicrosoftDynamicsgp12-kb2799678-ENU.msp


2. Click OK.

Until next post!

Leslie

DynUtils.exe is Missing

This is a first for me.

I had a client call wanting to set up a new company that had the same structure as an existing company. They had not set up a new database before so we were going to walk through it over the phone.

The first step, as you know, is to launch Dynamics Utilities. Surprise! Dynamics Utilities was gone and had left no forwarding address. Specifically, the DynUtils.exe file was missing. These folks were serious about not wanting anybody to run this program.

Out of curiosity, I deleted the DynUtils.exe from my workstation, and sure enough, Dynamics GP launched without a problem.

The moral of this story is to show you another clever way to put a little more security at the workstation. I would go farther though and take away the DynUtils.set file too! I wouldn’t bother with the ‘DU’ dictionaries, that’s only because I’m a bit disinclined to go to through the effort.

Special thanks to Mark Polino for the ‘left no forwarding address phrase’.

Until next time!

Leslie

T-SQL 2012: CHOOSE and IIF

 

We’ve been needing these two features for a long time. This post includes a couple of easy examples showing how these functions work.

CHOOSE

I’ll start with CHOOSE. By using CHOOSE you can do away with many tedious CASE statements. CASE statement opportunities are everywhere in Dynamics GP. For instance, how many times have you needed to display the document type in your report and want a word, not a number. Prior to SQL 2012, we would have written a CASE statement that would look a lot like this:

Case SOPTYPE
    when 1 then 'Quote'
    when 2 then 'Order'
    when 3 then 'Invoice'
    when 4 then 'Return'
    when 5 then 'Back Order'
    when 6 then 'Fulfillment Order'
    ELSE 'Undefined Document Type'
End as ' Doc Type'

CHOOSE will pick the value in your list according to the value of your data. It returns the expression at a specific index. So, instead of writing a case statement, you can simply write this:

CHOOSE (SOPTYPE, 'Quote', 'Order', 'Invoice', 'Return',
'Back Order', 'Fulfillment Order') AS DocType

If the value of your index is greater than the number choices, it will return NULL. It will also return NULL if the value is less than 1.

IIF

Next is IIF. Most of you probably already know how to use this and have wondered why you couldn’t do it in T-SQL. Flavors of this are in Excel formulas, Access calculations and even VBA, to name a few. It works with a Boolean expression and returns a value based on whether the expression is true or false. You set this up with three parameters. The first parameter is the expression you’re evaluating, the second parameter is the value if the expression is true, and the third parameter is the value if the expression is false. Yep, just like Excel.

So here’s what it looks like:

IIF(boolean_expression), value if true, value if false)

So much easier than CASE.

Until next post!

Leslie

T-SQL 2012: LAG & LEAD

I’ve just started playing with SQL 2012 and wanted to show you the new LAG and LEAD features.

I’ll use the report below as an example. Suppose you needed to generate a report that showed the last three years of sales. The result set would need to look something like this:

LEAD looks ahead the specified number of rows from the current row, and LAG (you guessed it!) looks behind the specified number of rows from the current row. By using the OVER clause you can specify your grouping (partitioning) and sort order.

Using SQL 2012 you can easily accomplish this using the following SELECT statement:

SELECT
   year(docdate)  AS ‘Order Year’
  ,SUM(SubTotal) AS ‘Current Yr Sales’
  ,LAG(SUM(SubTotal), 1, 0) OVER (ORDER BY YEAR(docdate)) AS ‘Last Year Sales’
  ,LAG(SUM(SubTotal), 2, 0) OVER (ORDER BY YEAR(docdate)) AS ‘Year Before Last’
  ,LAG(SUM(SubTotal), 3, 0) OVER (ORDER BY YEAR(docdate)) AS ‘Three Years Ago’
  ,LEAD(SUM(SubTotal), 1, 0) OVER (ORDER BY YEAR(docdate)) AS ‘Next Year’
FROM SOP30200
GROUP BY YEAR(DOCDATE)
ORDER BY YEAR(DOCDATE);

Have fun with it!

Until next post!

Leslie

Dexterity Training in Dallas (June 17 – 21, 2013)

 

Looking for Dexterity training? Come to Dallas!

We’re running this class if only a single person signs up, no cancellations here in Dallas .

I will be teaching the Dexterity Basics class in Dallas, Texas from June 17^th to June 21^st, providing the basic foundations any Dexterity programmer must have.

This is an opportunity for all of you VSTools programmers to learn how to build your user interface in Dexterity instead of WinForms so that your application will run with the new GP 2013 Web Client. Your existing code will hook right up to the Dexterity events, you may even like the Dexterity forms designer better than VS Tools!

Dexterity is easy to learn and easy to maintain.

For you VBA enhancers, you will learn how to write Dexterity code to deliver your solution instead of VBA. While VBA works marvelously with the rich client, it will not work for the new GP 2013 Web Client. Come to Dallas and learn how easy Dexterity really is.

Even you Technical Consultants, taking the basic Dex class with provide you with the tools you need to understand what all of those error messages really mean. You can become better consultants by learning just how this engine works! (and it’s easy).

For more information, send an email to training@conexussg.com or call 469-828-3274.

Hope to see you in Dallas!

The basics class covers the following topics:

Dexterity I – Product Fundamentals

Synopsis:
Dexterity Product Fundamentals will teach you about the development environment used to build the Microsoft Dynamics GP family of products. This course will provide you with the foundation you need to build integrated, database-independent applications. In addition, you will learn how to provide powerful application functionality for Microsoft Dynamics GP.
By actively participating in these classes, you should learn:

Basic programming techniques used by Microsoft Dynamics GP to develop their core modules.

• How to modify existing Dynamics GP forms and reports in order to make customizations for customers.
• How to develop add-on applications that will interact with the Dynamics GP products to meet specific requests by customers.
• How to package and ship your dictionary allowing Microsoft Dynamics GP to make updates to Dynamics GP without affecting the developer’s dictionary.
• How to register your product with Microsoft Dynamics GP using a unique Product ID to ensure no duplication of add-on applications with the same name.
• How to develop add-on applications that will “look and feel” like Dynamics GP and provide seamless interface between the applications to ensure a professional finished product.
• How to use object triggers, which are scripts in your applications that are invoked by events in Dynamics GP, allowing several developers to deliver enhancements to the same Dynamics GP form.

Kofi Annan Convergence 2013 Keynote Speaker

 

 We had the honor of hearing the wisdom of Kofi Annan as the keynote speaker on the Las day of Convergence. Here is a little more information about this Nobel Peace Prize awarded. 

 

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Kofi Annan

The Nobel Peace Prize 2001 was awarded jointly to United Nations (U.N.) and Kofi Annan "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"

Photos: Copyright © The Nobel Foundation

 

 

MLA style: "The Nobel Peace Prize 2001". Nobelprize.org. 21 Mar 2013 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2001/

Biography

Kofi A. Annan of Ghana, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, is the first to be elected from the ranks of UN staff. His first five-year term began on 1 January 1997 and, following his subsequent re-appointment by the UN Member States, he will begin a second five-year term on 1 January 2002.
MLA style: "Kofi Annan - Biography". Nobelprize.org. 21 Mar 2013 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2001/annan.html


He is truly a remarkable man.


Until next post.

Leslie

Volunteer Day at Convergence 2013

Sheila-Jefferson Ross participated in the volunteer project and gave me these great pictures.

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Thanks Sheila! Keep up the good work.

Until next post!

Leslie

David Musgrave, we miss you!

After the opening session of Convergence 2013 on 3/19/2013 we got together to send a picture message to David Musgrave.

Sheila Jefferson-Ross, Mariano Gomez and his wife, Leslie Vail and Beat Bucher. Looks like Mariano and his wife are showing off some TimTams and Chicos. I think I’ve been dissed .
Until next post!
Leslie

Convergence 2013 Day Zero

I got in last night and started the party on Bourbon Street. Here are some pictures of the festivities with Sheila Jefferson-Ross at Acme Oyster on Iberville in the edge of the French Quarter.

Here are some pictures from Bourbon Street and the Acme Oyster Company restaurant:

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Until next post!

Leslie

MVP Conference 2013

We had 4 Dynamics GP MVPs at this year’s MVP Conference! John Lowther, Mark Polino, Belinda Adam, and me!

Here are some photos from the conference. I can’t tell you anything we learned there because, as they remind us hourly, everything is subject to the Nondisclosure Agreement we all signed.

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Until next post!

Leslie

Get your Convergence 2013 Event App!

Heres HOW!

The full post regarding the app is available here on Donna Edward’s blog:

http://edwardsdna.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/convergence-2013-the-virtual-engagement/

Great post, Donna!

Mobile

We know that when you’re at the event, you’re on the go! Our Convergence mobile option will provide you with a handful of useful information so that you can keep moving in the right direction.

Download the Convergence Event App

Download Instructions: We have three convenient ways to download the apps to your devices.

1. From your phone: scan this tag to be taken directly to a download for your device.
   
2. From your PC or phone: Link directly to your app store.

   Android  Apple iOS  Windows PC (v 8 only), Surface (RT) and Windows Phone

3. Search for 'Convergence' in your app store.

After downloading the event application, you can use your registration username and password or Microsoft Account to access the following features:

• Session Schedule and Details – A full catalog of sessions and key events will be available on the fly. View and modify your schedule via Schedule Builder, see 'What's On Now', add new sessions, download session materials, take and share notes and complete evals from anywhere.
• Social Media and Photo Sharing - Our Twitter feed (#conv13), Facebook Event Page and LinkedIn Group are all accessible from within the app, along with a photo-sharing tool so you can take and upload photos from the event.
• Contact Exchange – Use the mobile app to scan badges and quickly connect with attendees, speakers, exhibitors and sponsors.
• Maps and Info – Built in venue and city based guides will help you find their way around, including an interactive map of the expo hall and an entertainment guide for New Orleans.
• Gaming – Get to the top of the Explore Convergence leaderboard with the most points received for completing various activities within the event - such as networking, sharing photos, posting to social media, completing evaluations and attending sessions.

Don't see your device? Don't worry! We have also created a mobile optimized version of the Convergence website. Login in with your registration username and password or Microsoft account and see a customized view of your event experience, with many of the same features from our mobile app - right at your fingertips!