subject: Dynamics Gp Customizing In Report Writer: Invoice Logo And Packages [print this page] We are doing our community work in popularizing Microsoft Dynamics GP formerly known as Great Plains. Lets talk about Report Writer and how to print SOP Invoice with more than three logos. Great Plains consultants know that Reports.dic is probably the same for all the users and there are three invoice forms to modify there: Long, Short and Blank. We expect questions from Small Business Financials users about graphical forms but lets answer them below. Lets begin with multiple logos:
OK here is the trick. Modify one of the SOP forms by placing graphical logo on its header and page. Feel free to put static text if you need as well. Then export the form as the package Tools -> Customize -> Customization Maintenance -> Export. What happens behind the scenes SOP Invoice form goes into export format and stored in package file. Now you are ready to change the logo and working and print invoice in company B. And in certain time period you need to print the batch of invoices for company A. Simply go back to Tools -> Customize -> Customization Maintenance and Import the package
Lets answer popular questions related to the topic:
Q. We tried this method but down the road couple of years later we are now getting error message Unknown error. Report to Microsoft? This seems to be associated in timing with the date when we reloaded one of the packages
A. It might be related. We have seen this problem several times. What happens behind the scenes is reloading the package restructures Reports.dic file which hosts modified reports. When other users are using the system there is the possibility of Reports.dic corruption. However there is simple solution for this problem. Rename Reports.dic and import all the reports from this renamed file. Also be sure that you have folders on the server for each company where you save associated package
Q. We are on very old version 6.0 and we do not see customization maintenance and export/import. But we have to run more than three companies where each has unique logo and it should be printed on invoice. What would you recommend?
A. You can organize it the following way. Modify SOP Blank Invoice form for company A. Then save a copy of Reports dictionary to the folder for company A on the server. Do the same for all the other companies. Then when you need to print new batch of invoices for A import directly in Report Writer. This method does the same things but apparently needs more space on your hard drive
Q. Could you customize RW report in Dexterity?
A. Yes. In this case it is moved to new add-on and its classification is Alternate Report which could be further modified in ReportWriter. It might be too confusing. Maybe better idea is to create if from scratch in Crystal? CR might be called from VBA script in modified (via Modifier) form. There are templates for SSRS (outside of the scope for this publication)
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