Great Plains Reseller News: Autoposting Server for Dynamics GP
Microsoft Dynamics GP implementation in ecommerce or EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) environments often requires documents creation in Dynamics GP from external applications, such as e-commerce web site.
We recommend you to make a research in the SDK and integrating tool, named eConnect. eConnect creates, deletes and updates GP master records: customer, vendor, employee, GL account, address for customer or vendor to name few examples. Also eConnect creates so-called work documents: Sales Order Processing Invoice, Sales Order, Purchase Order, GL transaction, Payroll Payment and Check, etc. Please, note here, that these documents have work status, they are not posted and awaiting for your review and posting on the batch level. It is often the requirements to post Great Plains batch automatically from ecommerce or EDI integration application ? and here you will get the limitation of eConnect ? it doesn’t have batch posting functionality and it probably should not due to GP architecture. In order to post batches in GP you will need add-on GP Autopost
Great Plains Development: Dexterity, VBA, eConnect, SQL ? highlights
Microsoft Dynamics GP, current version 10.0 as of June 2008 is pretty flexible platform if you are looking for modifications, custom modules programming, add-ons and extensions.
As many mid-size ERP GP has multiple customizing tools and you have to get some excurse into each one of them to select the best in your situation. Before rushing into modifications overview, please think through the fact, that GP is owned and supported by Microsoft Dynamics subdivision (former Microsoft Business Solutions) and as such you should expect it to be tightly linked with such Microsoft technologies as .Net, MS SQL Server, MS Office, Sharepoint, SRS (or SQL Server Reporting Services). Plus, you should know the history of GP design ? it was originally designed by Great Plains Software in earlier 1990th with popular shell IDE and programming language approach: Great Plains Dexterity (compare to SAP ABAP or Navision C/Side ? shells were believed to resolve computer platform dependence). Now is the time to review: