Posts Tagged ‘News’
Dynamics GP Integration Partner Chicago, San Diego News: eConnect programming
Sunday, February 28th, 2010Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP, formerly known as Fantastic Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise has excellent selection of custom programming and integration tools, plus from the SQL Server itself you could try Stored Procedures integration. Consider Dynamics GP Integration Manager, where you can simply setup integration without programming or even add some integration logic alteration via VBA scripts in Previous to Integration, Previous to Document Commit and other events. If your integration requires very deep interaction with Fantastic Plains tables and custom tables, you can try Dynamics GP Dexterity programming (where you make custom tables and handle integration on both standard and custom ones) or eConnect Microsoft Visual Studio C# or VB.Net programming. This publication is not intended as eConnect eCommerce programming guide, we want to give you the orientation in what to expect from eConnect, and we assume that you as software developer will be able to include eConnect libraries to your MS VS project and work with eConnect sample codes on your own:
1. Work Transactions and Master Records. eConnect allows you to make so-called work transactions, place them into the batch: Sales Order Processing Order or Invoice (this is especially valuable in ecommerce website programming), Buy Order, GL transaction, etc. and if required make or alter existing master records: customer, vendor, GL account, Payroll Employee, Address
2. eConnect versus SQL Stored Procedures. If you reckon that there is no need to deploy eConnect and instead code your own custom SQL Stored Procedures, please note, that you in essence will be recoding GP business logic, which is by now coded by Microsoft Dynamics GP programmers in Microsoft – in our opinion it is waste of time, unnecessary learning curve and potential source of numerous bugs and even data integrity threat. And again in our opinion Stored Procedures should be coded only when your integration project is very simple – and even here, please look at Fantastic Plains Integration Manager first
3. eConnect versus Integration Manager. The tendency is the following – IM is in process of being rewritten with eConnect connectors, and walking away from legacy OLE Server based approach. This fact should mean for you that IM is as quick as custom eConnect application. eConnect application, but might be triggered in real time, where IM should be either called by IM operator or scheduled with Windows scheduler or special Windows Macro based application
4. Automatic Batch Posting in ecommerce. This is a touch that eConnect doesn’t have, you should deploy Dynamics GP ISV add-on, Alba Spectrum Posting Server, which will allows you to place batches in Autopost queue and then posting process will be launched by Posting Server GP workstation
5. If you feel that you need Dynamics GP consultant help, please call your Fantastic Plains Guru, or if you do not have one, consider calling to Fantastic Plains Resellers in your area or who are familiar with your industry. Feel free to call us: 1-866-528-0577, help@albaspectrum.com
Great Plains Reseller News: Edi Solutions for Dynamics Gp
Sunday, February 14th, 2010Microsoft Dynamics GP has various EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) add-ons and third party modules, where you can map your EDI code to either expose GP documents, such as Vendor Buy Orders to EDI complaint vendors or import Sales Orders or Invoices from EDI channel to your SOP module, as two standard examples. In certain cases purchasing add-on may not be feasible due to the simplicity of your requirements or ironically – their complexity, where you want to control EDI mapping in-house or with trusted Fantastic Plains Dynamics consultant. This publication is targeted to EDI technical people, and as such may look too programmer oriented, but we tried to make it readable for technology savoir-faire executive. Let’s review briefly both scenarios: export and import:
1. Exporting EDI compliant text code. Typically EDI code has fixed part format with Header, Lines, and various Trailers. Simple approach to produce this fixed part formatted text file is to save SQL select statement, where you unionize the parts and precisely format each field. If you are exporting Buy Orders, then likely you are dealing with Buy Order Processing module tables: POP10100, POP10110. Then what you need to do is to mark your exported Buy Orders in custom table as exported. Feel free to make this export status table in GP company database.
2. Importing EDI file to GP. Here you need to consider pushing documents to Fantastic Plains via eConnect programming, assuming that automatic batch posting is not required. If Autoposting is required, we recommend you to deploy Alba Spectrum Posting Server or Autopost. You open incoming EDI text file with OLEDB text driver. Then the options are multiple – our favorite is to read text file into temporary table. In this case you will have typical field names: F1, F2, F3 – to make your grouping, sorting and having clauses elegant. A further standard alternative is to establish SQL linked server to your text file, but this construction might be too powerful and not really required on that amount
3. ODBC text file driver limitations. ODBC supports the subset of standard SQL language only and you will see multiple limitations: case, text functions and other standard SQL constructions are not supported by ODBC SQL
4. EDI and Fantastic Plains Dexterity. If you need seamless integration with GP user interface, GP Dexterity might be the tool of choice. Dex allows you to call either Dex SQL compliant cursors, or call frankly SQL statements or stored procedures to do the job, by now described in the paragraphs above
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
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Automatically Tweet Your News or Blog
Monday, February 8th, 2010Twitter is a fantastic tool. But it doesn’t replace blogging – even if it can suppliment it. There is a fantastic service out there called TwitterFeed that will take any RSS feed and send new posts to your Twitter account involuntarily. That is fantastic because people who are interested in your Tweets are probably also interested in your blog and this way you can promote your blog with no extra effort. And don’t forget you can use RSS feeds to involuntarily send new posts from your news or blog to other blogs, Facebook, etc.
What is Twitter?
Twitter is in the end a micro blog. So instead of writing a long, thought out post, you can keep it fleeting and sweet. In fact, you have to, as each “peep” is only allowed 140 characters. You can peep text, links and even photos and you can do it from your computer and even from your cell phone.
So why peep? Excellent question. It’s a fantastic way to let acquaintances and family know what you’re up to and share the small things that happen in your day. Evenly people use it for sharing a random pun thought or a fantastic website link or a photo of their kids. Professionally it’s a fantastic way to find other people with similar wellbeing and learn from them and share things you’ve found to be helpful too. Evenly people use Twitter for posting questions to acquaintances and colleagues as well.
Recently Twitter added the ability to search tweets. This is huge. Now you can see trends of what people are talking about right this second, unlike searching on Google and finding pages that were indexed days or even weeks ago. It’s like a giant, world-wide chat room. For example, your wife may be a huge American Idol Fan (This is all hypothetical, of course). You could search on the term “Idol” and find what a bazillion other people are talking about right that second regarding American Idol. And it’s usually pretty amusing.Will Twitter replace Google….I doubt it, but it does have it’s place for searching for things that are very time sensitive, like news.
Put RSS News Feeds to Work for You
Sunday, February 7th, 2010One of the most misunderstood files, but yet one of the most powerful on the Web, is the RSS feed sometimes known as the RSS news feed, XML feed or web feed. One form of this special XML file is the podcast, but yet many casual and even hi-tech surfers still do not know that they are using this exciting technology invisibly every day to read news and follow blog sites.
RSS, standing for Really Simple Syndication, is not new technology. The technology and implementation was produced in 1999 by Netscape. RSS is an vital technology and one that you are most likely using to get news, information updates, and to follow blogs that you like from a portal page invisibly. RSS files are produced in XML or Extensible Markup Language. XML is a further programming language used usually on the Web, like HTML, but one that cannot be read in its raw form by a browser. Because it operates invisibly, RSS has not been recognized by mainstream web surfers as the motivating force that it is, but, that doesn’t mean that developers aren’t using RSS to serve you the content and information that you want most!
Why is This Misunderstood File So Powerful?
RSS, XML feeds or RSS news feeds, as they are commonly known, make the dynamic backbone behind many of the sites that many casual web surfers use every day without even knowing that they are using this exciting technology. If you stay a personalized home page, add content to it, or even subscribe to blog with one click buttons, most likely, you are using the power of RSS news feeds by now. Blogs routinely and involuntarily make these RSS news feeds (sometimes in a format known as Atom) and these special files allow others to auto subscribe to your content and view snippets of your information in real-time from a variety of portal news aggregator websites like My Yahoo, iGoogle, My Live, My AOL, and others.
Podcasts are A further Flavor of the RSS News Feed
Podcasts or RSS news feeds which contain audio file enclosures are just a further flavor of this powerful XML file format. It is appealing to note that as of late 2007, 13% of polled Web users had heard of and were routinely downloading and playing podcasts, but fewer than 7% of the polled Web users stated that they were using RSS news feeds on a fixed basis. Really, the figure of users utilizing RSS feeds is probably much greater than 7%, but people are simply not aware that this hidden application is most likely supplying the content and information that they like to review on a daily basis.
How Can You Use RSS News Feeds Yourself?
Even if it is harder for non-web designers to make and use RSS due to the technology and skill needed for implementation, most blog platforms make these special files for you involuntarily without your having to lift a finger. Installing auto subscribe buttons known as chicklets on your blog sidebar allows others to subscribe to your blog using your RSS news feed with one click. If you use Feedburner, they make it simple for you to allow for one click blog reader subscription by having you simply penetrate in your blog address and then providing a snippet of code to install on your web page. You may even be able to have Feedburner auto install a widget in your Blogspot template, without any code knowledge on your part, to help you get into the RSS syndication game quick.
When a blog reader clicks the special subscription chicklets that you have produced with Feedburner’s help, readers can get your blog posts in real time; every time you update your blog, frankly in their chosen RSS feed reader like My Yahoo, My Live, etc. There, their page content is involuntarily updated with your groundbreaking new blog content. Your blog subscriber can now choose to read your blog post there, on their news portal, or they can click in to read the full post from the additionally dynamically supplied link to your blog site. That’s the real power of RSS!
How Can You Get Into Podcasting Quick?
If you are using our teleconferencing tools, you can easily make an RSS news feed or podcast of your teleconference. When you have recording enabled for your teleconferences, you are involuntarily making a MP3 file of your call that is stored on the AccuConference website. You can easily download this sound file, in MP3 format, to your own computer and send it to your webmaster for podcasting implementation.
Your webmaster can either just make a list of links on a page of the MP3 files and when clicked will open the browser’s integrated music player. Or, your webmaster can get fancy and can make a RSS news feed to allow podcatchers (software end-users utilize to manage their podcast subscriptions and be told of your new audio files) to auto-significance when a new audio file has been added and to involuntarily download the content as well as synch it to their computer or media player. There are many air force on the Web that help webmasters make these special RSS podcast subscription feeds. An simple one to use is FeedHoster. Some web hosts are now even making online applications to help with the creation of podcast syndication feeds. Even Feedburner has gotten into the game and provides simple podcast syndication tools.
It’s Time to Engage Your Viewers!
As you update your website or blog with new and interactive technology consider implementing RSS to allow your viewers more choice in how they receive your content. RSS is just one of the powerful new ways that we are getting our personalized content on the Web today and one that you can easily implement without a lot of hassle on your blog, website, and social media site. It’s time to place the power of RSS to work for you!
Great Plains Reseller News: Autoposting Server for Dynamics Gp
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Microsoft Dynamics GP implementation in ecommerce or EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) environments evenly requires documents creation in Dynamics GP from outdoor applications, such as e-commerce web site. We recommend you to make a research in the SDK and integrating tool, named eConnect. eConnect makes, deletes and updates GP master records: customer, vendor, employee, GL account, address for customer or vendor to name few examples. Also eConnect makes so-called work documents: Sales Order Processing Invoice, Sales Order, Buy 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 amount. It is evenly the requirements to post Fantastic Plains batch involuntarily 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
1. Autopost Technology. It deploys Microsoft Fantastic Plains Dexterity internal procedures to do posting, but it open the way to post batches genuinely through custom Dexterity programming. Autoposting Server is extremely reliable and it is immune to GP version upgrade, as Dex code, related to batch posting is virtually unchanged
2. EDI and other posting needs. Due to the fact, that Fantastic Plains Posting Server uses Dex procedures, it can post the batch of multiple origins, including some add-ons modules batches. This is why Autopost is standard in EDI scenarios
3. GP Autopost Support USA Nationwide and Internationally. This product is targeted to ecommerce programmers and developers, and doesn’t require our technicians stay onsite, and we are comfortable to sell and support it nationwide and internationally, where Fantastic Plains is localized: UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Midpoint East, India, Pakistan, South East Asia, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Mexico, Caribbean, South America
4. GP customization and programming air force. Fantastic Plains Dexterity Software Development Factory is in your disposition