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Microsoft Great Plains Customization Recovery & Upgrade for Large Corporation
By Andrew Karasev
At the end of XX
century, in the late 1990th Great Plains Software eEnterprise was
recognized as one of the leader on the midsize to large corporate ERP market.
Due to the nature of eEnterprise architecture - it is Great Plains Dexterity
based application and Dexterity imposes some specific to the database access and
table structure – eEnterprise was subject to relatively inexpensive
customization. During the recession time a lot of former Great Plains Software
and then Microsoft Business Solutions partners either went out of business or
merged with Auditing firms and their Great Plains clients saw this instability
and simply stopped annual enhancement program payments and become so-called
orphan clients. Today, in 2005 – it is time to upgrade from eEnterprise 6.0 to
Microsoft Great Plains Professional 8.0. If you have major customization for
eEnterprise – you need to understand your options before you find your new
Microsoft Business Solutions VAR of record. In this small article we will
describe you the main steps and options to upgrade Dexterity customization:
DYNAMICS.DIC with
the source code. This is where
your customization script should be originated from. The nature of Dexterity
makes the developer to produce so-called Dexterity chunk from this
DYNAMICS.DIC with the source code, in the chunk itself the code is stripped
off. You should have this dictionary, if you don’t – contact your old VAR and
see if somebody could give it t you. If you can not find the source code,
then customization should be understood and recoded – yes – how sad it might
sound.
VBA / Modifier
code. Alternative to Dexterity
customization could be light (or heavy) VBA scripting. Modifier allows you to
place new button on the Great Plains screens and address new and existing
fields in the VBA code. VBA scripts are located in DYNAMICS.VBA dictionary.
This dictionary should be present on each workstation, using the
modification. Usually this code is not encrypted and programmer could analyze
and upgrade the code. Modified forms could be also upgraded. Sometimes we
see heavy VBA coding, using element of Continuum, where it switched Dexterity
dictionaries and then uses inline Dexterity sacscript scripting. These
customizations, probably considered as very high-skills programming in the
past should be redone.
Stored Procedures.
In eEnterprise, beginning with version 5.0 Dexterity cursors were recommended
to rewrite in the form of stored procedures, and so offload Dexterity logic
into MS SQL Server scripting. Usually you need Dexterity programmer to take a
look at your Company or Dynamics databases and tell you which stored
procedures are deployed by Dexterity customization. And you are lucky if they
are not encrypted.
Other custom
elements. You may have
ReportWriter reports: SOP Long Invoice Form, for example. These is a list of
upgradeable and no-upgradeable, the last ones should be redone.
Good luck with
customization upgrade and if you have issues or concerns – we are here to help!
If you want us to do the job - give us a call
866-528-0577 or 630-961-5918!
help@albaspectrum.com
About the Author
Andrew is Great Plains
specialist in
Alba Spectrum Technologies (
http://www.albaspectrum.com ) – Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Microsoft
CRM Partner, serving clients in
California, Minnesota,
Illinois, Washington, Florida, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia,
Louisiana, Texas, Canada, UK, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Russia
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