Great Plains Consultant: Crystal Reports Design

Microsoft Dynamics GP, or former ERP name is Great Plains Software Dynamics / eEnterprise gives you, programmer or software developer vide spectrum of report design tools: Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, GP ReportWriter, MS Access, MS Excel to name some of the popular. 

In this small technical paper we would like to introduce you into Crystal Reports design for Dynamics GP, assuming that you are new to GP and need some starting help.  We also assume here, that you are on MS SQL Server Database: GP 10.0, 9.0 and 8.0, if you are on GP 7.5 and earlier: 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0 or 4.0 where Great Plains was available on Ctree or Pervasive SQL/Btrieve, please review database connection options, described in our earlier articles ? you will need to install Ctree/Faircom or Pervasive ODBC drivers.  Let’s come back to Crystal for GP on MS SQL Server:

GP Customization: popular add-ons and Dex modification scenarios

Microsoft Great Plains or current name of this mid-market ERP is Dynamics GP has various development and programming options: Dexterity, eConnect, VBA/Modifier, SQL stored procedures openness, SDK for Microsoft Visual Studio developer to name few popular. 

The topic is very popular as more GP MRP and accounting systems are in process of being installed and implemented.  Special interest we expect from eCommerce developers, where such questions as automatic batch posting, Sales Order deposits application are very popular ones.

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