I love a challenge when I see one, but more important, I love to share my knowledge when I get to the bottom of it all. On the Microsoft Dynamics GP Newsgroup a user expressed her interest in seeing more integration between GP's letter writing capabilities and Microsoft Outlook as it relates to Customers and Vendors. While one could argue that you could use already built-in email submission capabilities in Microsoft Word to send documents from there, the fact remains, that all the customer internet information would be ignored, forcing the user to switch between Outlook and GP to retrieve and manually enter email contact information into Outlook and perhaps even having to click through mounts of directories for files just previously saved with the Letter Writing Assistant.

Implementation

1) With the Customer Maintenance window open, press CTRL+F10 to open Modifier.

2) Move the INet1 and INet2 fields to the window area on the Customer Maintenance window. Do not be concerned about the placement of the field since later on they will be moved back to their original positions.

So, a user by the name of 2020 asked on the newsgroups the other day, how can we disable outlook on the Great Plains home page?

I happen to have had this same issue and using my trusty SQL Profiler, I found that when I manually uncheck Outlook from my home page, GP ran a SQL statement like the…

One of the issues I had seen after an upgrade to GP 10 was that "Send to PDF" with Outlook 2003 had stopped working. Microsoft Tech Support responded saying this was an identified issue which would be resolved in SP1. SP1 is due in November.

I saw somebody else facing this issue in the…