Not long after I joined Microsoft in May 2001, I found myself working as part of a global development team for Asia Pacific. The team was based in Manila in the Philippines and was involved in a regional research project to check the feasibility of releasing a version of Great Plains eEnterprise v6.0 for China.

Now, it should be mentioned that Dexterity (and so Microsoft Dynamics GP) does not support double byte or Unicode characters. This project was investigating whether a third party tool such as Rich-Win could be used to display Chinese characters using two single characters for each Chinese character.  While it was possible to translate the documentation and most of the windows, there were a number of quirky issues with data entry that eventually caused the project to be stopped.

Another part of this project was looking at the reporting…

I am pleased to announce that SnapShot for the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Beta is available.

If you have not heard of SnapShot before, have a look at the previous post about this handy free tool.

SnapShot for Microsoft Dynamics GP

NOTE:…

From David Musgrave I see that the unsupported SnapShot utility has a beta release to…