Copy List Items in Extender

Why this feature is cool!

Do you have lists on multiple forms or windows in Extender that are the same or very similar? Perhaps after you have finished typing a long list of items you found that you missed some or mistyped a word or changed the order from another list.  Well now, you can copy a list of items from the same…

Here is another support case that was resolved simply and quickly using the Support Debugging Tool.

The customer was using Extender to add an additional comment to the inventory stock transfer transaction. They created an Extender ID "ST_COMMENTS" and used the Long String field type in Extender which is a 255 character string. This worked fine.

Then the customer wanted to include the Extender field on the posting reports. There is a Knowledge Base (KB) article that explains how to use a calculated string field and a user defined report writer function to return Extender to a report. click on the link below for more details:

• How to create a calculated field in Report Writer to print Extender fields in Microsoft Dynamics GP reports (KB 935385)

The instructions are to use the rw_TableHeaderString() report writer function and pass through the following parameters:

1. Product ID: For Extender 3107
2. Extender ID: In our case "ST_COMMENTS"
3. Key Field: In our case IV_TRX_WORK_HDR.IV Document Number, but I will use Table.FieldName
4. Not used: Integer constant of 0
5. Field Number: In our case 1

So below is the definition of the Comment calculated field: 

Comment = FUNCTION_SCRIPT(  rw_TableHeaderString  3107  "ST_COMMENTS"  Table.FieldName  0  1  )

To break the 255 character string into 4 lines of up to 80 characters each the following calculated fields were also created using the RW_ParseString() report writer function:

Comment1 = FUNCTION_SCRIPT(  RW_ParseString  Comment  80  1 )

Comment2 = FUNCTION_SCRIPT(  RW_ParseString  Comment  80  2 )

Comment3 = FUNCTION_SCRIPT(  RW_ParseString  Comment  80  3 )

Comment4 = FUNCTION_SCRIPT ( RW_ParseString  Comment  80  4 )

In theory this should work perfectly. In practice it fails badly.

The problem is that there currently is a 80 character limit on the size of string calculated fields in report writer. This limit is discussed in the following post: Hybrid - Cheque Amount in Words Example and required additional code to be written to solve it for the one function: Announcing Report Writer Function RW_ConvertToWordsAndNumbersParse. The problem report number for the 80 character limit is PR 5239.

The end result was that only the first 80 characters of the Extender long string was returned and so only the first line of the 4 Comment lines was populated. It was at…

This has been a very popular question for support lately: “I have created an Extender…

Why this feature is cool!

In GP2010, Unified Communications and Office Communicator 2007 functionality was added to the Dynamics GP windows to show the status of contacts and allow you to contact them directly through Office Communicator or make a phone call. 

·         Display Presence Indicator for customers and vendors

·         Uses the Linked…

You may has seen that Microsoft Dynamics GP v10.00 Service Pack 4 will include a number of new features to the Extender product.

Please see the information on blog posts on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog and US Microsoft Dynamics GP Field Team blog:

• Get more out of your existing solution with Extender
   
• New Functionality for Extender in Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Service Pack 4

What we are getting is more of the features from eOne Integrated Business Solutions's eXtender product.  Lots of cool features that go way beyond the additional custom fields offered…

I am working on Extender features after quite some time.

I was creating a Detail Window for Service Call Entry/Update window in Field Service. I entered Window ID, Description, Product, Series, Form & Window. I selected a Key Field and entered one Line Field.

I tried saving the Detail Window and I got this error message:

Certain…

For those of you looking to create Business Alert events for Extender tables and data, follow these instructions provided by Microsoft's Dawn Langlie from the Partner Online Technical Community.

"In order to add Extender tables so you can see them in Business Alerts, first go to Tools-Utilities-System-Business Alerts. Here is where you will select the tables. Pick "eXtender" as the Product…

One major issue which was in the previous versions of Extender was:

When we delete an Extender Window or Detail Window, the respective records were not deleted and that leaves substantial orphan records in the EXT tables.

This issue is fixed in Extender 10.0 SP4. Now deleting a Window/Detail Window will not delete the underlying records also. Now…

One of the well kept Microsoft Dynamics GP Extender secrets - is that you can have different eXtender windows pop up based upon the data you are working with. For Example, you may want to capture extra information about an inventory code but the data you need to capture is different depending on the inventory item. Lets say you sell both telephones and hard drives. For the telephone you need to track (make, model, color, hands free, number of lines, and a host of phone features such as call back and number storage) while for the hard drive you need different information (storage capacity, make, connection types, connection speed, Mac support etc)