I shy away from table import whenever possible. I prefer integration manager, or using SQL directly, or eConnect if I can. But sometimes I am reminded of how simple things can be done simply.

For the past few weeks, I have been working on an implementation that goes live Monday 12/28. We have had a fairly tight timeframe, so I have been trying to avoid manual data entry whenever possible.…

There is a little GP tool that comes as part of Integration Manager. It's called table import. Basically this little guy will let you import a tab or comma delimited file into ONE table in GP. You can't combine tables, you can't link stuff, etc. This tool is a hammer, not a Swiss Army knife.

But it can be useful for tables not available in IM (like sales tax rates). The astute DB's in the audience…

The folks at MSDynamicsWorld.com have picked up on my Table Import article and are running…