Sneak Peek Into Dynamics GP 2010 (v11) – Part II

Folks…

This is the 2nd part of my series of articles being posted to give a preview of Dynamics GP 2010 (v11). I am going to provide further insight into the enhancements to the foundation series in GP v11.

Enhancements to Lookups

The major enhancement to the lookup windows in GP is to allow the user to specify a default lookup so that the lookup opens up based on the requirements he might need.

With the help of this functionality, the user can combine the power of smartlist favorites in lookups and specify a smartlist favorite as the default view for the lookup, so that the users do not have to choose it every time he opens the lookup window.

This enhancement has been provided in the following lookup windows in this release.

• Items lookup window
• Accounts lookup window
• Employees lookup window
• Customers and Prospects lookup window
• Salespeople lookup window
• Vendors lookup window

This view is available on a per-user per company basis.

Right Click Menu Availability for Text/Numeric Fields

By this functionality, the user can right click on a text (or) numeric field and can access a shortcut menu which contains the functionalities to Cut, Copy, Paste, Select All, Clear, Undo..

This way, the user can copy the contents of a field using context menus instead of having to go to the Edit Menu on the GP window. This is much helpful, since the CTRL + C functionality does not work in some of the fields depending on the usage of the CTRL+C shortcut key on that window.

Copy User Security

Using this option on the User Maintenance window, we can copy the security information for an existing user (like company access, roles and tasks) into a new user that we are creating.

This eliminates the time to configure security for the user especially if the client is using a complex security architecture. Thus if there is an existing user whose security information can be copied to the new user, it can be done in just a couple of clicks.

Integration with Microsoft Office Communicator

This functionality allows you to see the online presence of the customers, vendors, and employees from within Microsoft Dynamics GP. This feature is integrated with Microsoft Office Communicator.

Keep watching here for the next article in this series for more information on GP v11.

Until next post…