Category: News

D365 Is Dead

It is hard to be alive if it never existed in the first place.  D365 does not exist.   D365 is a marketing umbrella term for two completely separate online ERP software packages provided by Microsoft.  The two separate ERP packages … more...

Prorate Setup Time

Keywords: Prorate Setup Time, Prorate Quantity, Standard Cost (FIFO/LIFO Periodic), Actual Cost (FIFO/LIFO Perpetual), Backflush

Summary

When Prorate Setup Time is marked and Setup Labor is backflushed, the MO Receipt applies an incorrect amount of Setup Cost to each piece.… more...

PSTL Combiner Duplicate Key Error

Keywords: PSTL, Professional Services Tool Library, Duplicate Key

When using PSTL Combiner (i.e. combining Items, Customers or Vendors), you can get a duplicate key error:

[Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint ‘PK-tablename-‘. Cannot insert duplicate key … more...

Should I update GP?

Yes.

There are tens of thousands of GP users poking around every nook and cranny of the software every day.  Every release contains not only new features, but bug fixes.  Even after decades of heavy use people are still able … more...

GP18.3+ Delete/Void Bug

DATE: 20-OCT-2022

Summary: Deleting partial Invoice corrupts originating Order on GP18.3+

In GP18.3 a change was made to how SOP deletes/voids a document.  It appears that the objective was to “rollback” the QTY Invoiced on the Originating Order when the … more...

Prevent DEX_ROW_ID Overflow

You may not have given this a thought, but every Dynamics GP database table has a DEX_ROW_ID column, and there is a maximum value for that field.  It is 2,147,483,647.  Just over 2 billion.

Every time you add a record … more...

Pricing & Downloads

We are excited to announce a couple of small changes to our website that we hope will improve you life!  Well…that might be overstating things a bit, but we hope the changes will help you do your job more efficiently, … more...

Trying Our Software

In additional to being fully functional in Fabrikam, all of our software is also fully functional, without registration keys, in <TEST> companies.  There are two benefits from this:

First, you can download and test our software using your live data … more...

Grant SQL All Objects

It is commonly thought that the grant.sql script (found in the GP Folder\SQL\Utils\) takes care of security at the SQL Server level by granting access to DYNGRP to all of the SQL objects used by Dynamics GP.

It doesn’t!

We … more...

New Help Buttons

As we roll-out new builds for GP2018, we are adding new Help functionality to all of our products across all currently supported GP versions  (at this time we are supporting GP2013 through GP2018).   There were four goals for the new … more...

WilloWare Community

One of our core objectives has always been to listen to you.  Sometimes we receive your suggestions through an email or a support case, or on a phone call. We also monitor blogs and Microsoft’s Connect site.

We keep our … more...

MORI WIP Transfers

We just released (3-OCT-2017) a new build of MOGenerator’s MO Receipt Integration (MORI) that now has support for WIP Inventory.  This new functionality provides the ability to record usage of raw materials as it happens.  There are two components of … more...

Dynamics GP HEAP Tables

You may have looked into a GP performance issue and dug around a bit and discovered that you have high fragmentation in a large number of table indexes.  After rebuilding indexes, a large number of indexes still have high fragmentation, … more...

The Anti-Spec

If you feel too constrained by the standard software spec, which describes only the functionality that will be present in the proposed software, we are proud to now offer our exclusive Anti-Specification Service. Our ASS will identify everything that will … more...

WilloWare in TEST

During July (2017) we will be rolling out new builds of all of our software.  This mid-year update addresses any open, low-priority issue reports, and adds a few helpful system features.  If you are receiving our “software release” updates, you … more...

Fun With Color Settings

Color Settings (in GP PowerPack), is (a) Awesome and (b) Free!  It provides the ability to for users to edit their own settings, and for admins to apply a company-wide setting.  With access to 26 user-interface elements, and 17 colors, … more...

Troubleshooting

Microsoft Dynamics GP Troubleshooting

Sometimes things go wrong.  Is it something you can resolve yourself, or do you need expert help?  Where do you start?  There are as many troubleshooting techniques as there are unique problems.  Here we provide some … more...

Scheduling MOGenerator

Overview

MOGenerator provides a number of useful Manufacturing integration utilities, such as the ability to create MOs, reschedule MOs, create child-MOs, and receive MOs.  Collectively these utilities will be referred to as MOGen in this post.

MOGen can be run … more...

Dynamics GP Report Extender

We just released (06-FEB-2017) an exciting new feature in Consulting Toolkit called GP Report Extender (GP-REX).  GP-REX adds Report Writer functions that allow retrieving data from any table in the database.

A quick internet search on “Dynamics GP Report Writer” … more...

glpBatchCleanup Error

Dynamics GP tracks activity, such as having a Transaction window open or posting a transaction, in two System Database (i.e. DYNAMICS) tables:

Just opening the GL Transaction Entry window results in records being added to both tables.

glpbatchcleanup

glpbatchcleanup

If the transaction … more...

WilloWare Stock Portfolio 2016-11

At the beginning of this year we started an internal project to gather information about our customers.  We knew that, in general, we had quite a few customers in manufacturing and distribution, but we had not ever attempted to define … more...