MicrosoftDynamicsGP18 6
MicrosoftDynamicsGP18 6
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Dynamics GP 18.6
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Application & System Features Microsoft Dynamics GP 18.6
Table of contents
Microsoft Dynamics GP Features ................................................................................................................................................. 1
Microsoft Dynamics GP Lifecycle ................................................................................................................................................. 2
Lifecyle for Microsoft Dynamics GP ...................................................................................................................................... 2
System Requirements Updates .............................................................................................................................................. 3
Upgrading to Microsoft Dynamics GP 18.6 ............................................................................................................. 3
Application Features.......................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Financial Summary Inquiry Redisplay .................................................................................................................................. 4
Reverse Fiscal year end close by Company ....................................................................................................................... 5
Customer statements display open items ......................................................................................................................... 6
Email/Reprint Vendor Remittance with message fields ............................................................................................... 7
ALL Payables 1099 forms print with LINES. ....................................................................................................................... 9
Drop Down List Selection for Batch Source on Navigation Lists. .......................................................................... 10
Print and Email Cash Receipts ............................................................................................................................................. 11
Print Sales Order Processing blank picking ticket template .................................................................................... 14
Set Unit of Measure from the PO Requisition to the Purchase Order ................................................................. 15
Format Workflow emails with item decimals................................................................................................................. 16
Project Time & Expense Workflow My Expenses/ Delegates List.......................................................................... 18
Project Time Expense Workflow my Timesheets List .................................................................................................. 20
Payroll Year-End Wage Report Formatting .................................................................................................................... 21
Letter Writing Assistant Expiring Test in Human Resources .................................................................................... 22
Letter Writing Assistant Final Notice Collection Letter .............................................................................................. 23
System & Workflow ........................................................................................................................................................................ 24
Completely Delete Document Attachments .................................................................................................................. 24
Shared Mailbox with Multi-Factor Authentication(MFA) .......................................................................................... 26
Modern Authentication - Single Tenant App Registration ...................................................................................... 30
Summary of all Table Changes in 18.6 ............................................................................................................................. 31
It will take approximately 120 minutes to train the features in Microsoft Dynamics GP.
Microsoft is fully committed to supporting our Dynamics GP customers for years to come
Here is a summary of the supported SQL versions based on Microsoft Dynamics GP version.
-GP 18.2 and later supports SQL 2019 plus SQL 2017, 2016 and 2014
-GP 18.5 &18.6 supports SQL 2022, 2019, 2017 and 2016 (SQL 2014 dropped)
The only supported upgrade path to the current release is from the release 1 year back from current in
accordance with the Modern Lifecycle noted above.
Note: As an example of a supported (tested by Microsoft) upgrade path to 18.6 (October 2023
Release) or 2023 Year-End would be from GP 18.4.1361 or later.
Application Features
The time to complete this lesson, including exercises, is 30 minutes.
With Microsoft Dynamics GP 18.6, a redisplay button is added to the Financial Summary Inquiry Window
(Similar to Detail Inquiry window). When the user clicks the redisplay, the system will refresh the data for
the account entered, display the same account and year information and redisplay the refreshed data.
That way, if the summary inquiry window is open with an account selected, if the user posts a transaction,
they can redisplay to see the updated posted information.
You no longer need to have all users logged out of all companies. What a time saver and allows your
users to keep processing in other companies.
Example of the error message you would receive prior to the 18.6 release.
You can click Tools, choose Routines, click Financial and then select Year-End Closing.
This will prevent any documents that have been fully applied from being printed on the Customer
Statement without running the Paid Transaction Removal Routine.
In the Sales area page, under Routines, choose Statements you will see a new option to Exclude All Fully
Applied Documents.
Selecting the Exclude All Fully Applied Documents option on its own will produce a Statement will exclude
any documents that have a current transaction amount of 0. The date of the apply record is not
considered for excluding the documents, and the cutoff date will determine which documents with a
current balance will print on the report. Debit documents will display with a positive value and Credit
documents will display with a negative value.
This is a stand-alone option which cannot be effectively selected in combination with other options. For
example, you cannot use this option in combination with the Show Applied Payments option. In that
scenario the Exclude All Fully Applied Documents would be ignored, and the report will print as it did in
previous versions with the documents and their apply records regardless of whether they are fully applied
or not.
We may look into expanding on this option in the future to make it more robust in combination with
other options. Please share your feedback or vote on existing suggestions.
With this new feature, it is still important to use the Paid Transaction Removal routinely to maintain the
performance levels of your reports, look up, and Inquiry windows in Receivables Management. You may
however be able to get away with not running it as frequently as you used to on prior Dynamics GP
versions.
Go to Purchasing > Inquiry > Transaction by Vendor > Select Vendor ID >Select the Payment > click on
the blue Document Number> Click on Re-create Check Stub button > send re-print EFT remittance email.
With the release of 18.6 the customized fields that you added and printed on the original form, will now
also print or be included when you email or reprint the remittance from the Inquiry window.
With this positive feedback from customers with the release of 18.6, all the Payables 1099 forms will now
print on blank paper, Miscellaneous, Dividend and Interest.
The new report writer forms will print on 8.5 X 11 blank paper and prints one 109 per page. This will be a
nice feature to print your forms to screen and verify 1099 information. It also could be used as the form
that is delivered to the vendor.
Microsoft Dynamics GP does not print the 3-part 1099-NEC form with boxes by the IRS (About Form
1099-NEC, Nonemployee Compensation | Internal Revenue Service (irs.gov) ). Usually, customers will
submit the forms electronically to the IRS vs a printed copy.
Add the remaining information in this window and click the "Print Forms File"
Note: With the 2022 Year-End form changes from IRS the "For calendar year" field is now blank.
In prior years it was populated/printed with a year. On this new form, the year is printed from
the "1099 Year" field in the above Print 1099 window.
With the release of 18.6, again on the Navigation List as everyone loves them and uses them, we added a
filter on Batch Source (which was there before), but now you can have a drop-down list of all your batch
sources. What users found was it was hard to find the source and type it in exactly correctly, Now we
have the lists added for you for easy access to filter based on it.
Customers took on to this feature and LOVED it and asked for more!
As a reminder, to activate this feature, go to the Sales Area page, under Setup choose E-mail Settings. In
the Sales E-mail Setup window, you will see the new option for Cash Receipts.
In version 18.6 (2023) we are expanding on this functionality in multiple ways. You will now be able to
create your own Email Message IDs specific to Cash Receipts, and edit the email address and email
message per transaction with the added E-mail Detail Entry window.
From the Customers Navigation List we have added the Cash Receipts selection to the Mass Customer E-
mail setting window to mass updates customers for emailing Cash Receipts.
There is a new Doc. Type option specific to Cash Receipts for creating E-mail Messages that will allow you
to customize the subject and body and pull fields from your specific Cash Receipt transaction onto your E-
mail to the customer. The fields that can be used are listed below:
Comment
Customer Name
Customer Number
Document Date
Payment Amount
Payment Type
Microsoft Dynamics GP select Tools, choose Setup and select Company and E-mail Message Setup
The Cash Receipts Entry and Inquiry windows now have the email detail icon next to the Customer ID to
add and edit E-mail addresses and Email Message contents.
Choose Sales and select Inquiry choose Transaction by Customer click Select a payment transaction and
then choose Document Number link
As with previous versions, you cannot bulk print or email from the Receivables Batches window, only from
the All-Sales-Transactions Navigation List. If you are going to use the Batch Number Filter, best practice
would be to use unique batch IDs or also add a date filter also so that you do not process Payments from
previous Batches with the same ID. In the example below, the All-Sales-Transactions Navigation List is
filtered using a Document Type of Payment and Batch Number so that only Cash Receipts for the specific
batch will appear. You can then mark them all on the list and click Actions then Send in E-mail and then
click the Send button to send all 9 Cash Receipts at once.
When this is not set correctly, the unit cost for the Item is changing during the receiving process which
leads to an effect on our P/L. The main issue as an example is I have created a Purchase Requisition with
20-CTN. The Vendor accepted to provide the goods in the same UOM. When we convert the UOFM
changes to PKT.
This is an issue during Receiving's as the Vendor may not invoice/receipt in the base UoM ( think of cases
of water - the vendor will send/invoice 1 case, not 24 bottles )
An option was added to Purchasing Setup --> Requisition --> Requisition Purchase for a setting to use
Requisition Item U of M (This is similar functionality to SOP --> Purchase.)
Prior to release 18.6, the notification emails from the Workflow feature would default to five decimal
places. For example, this is an assignment email for a Sales Order that has been submitted for approval in
the previous releases:
In the October 2023 release of Dynamics GP this same notification will look like this:
Notice how the Document Amount and Subtotal values are only displaying two decimals.
You will notice a similar change in the following assignment email for a Purchase Requisition in both the
document header and line information:
2. Expenses that others submitted on your behalf for your Employee ID.
5. Expenses that you submitted for other Employees as a delegate on their behalf (your team).
Power Users can also add the Workflow user Column to these new navigation Lists to make it easier for
users to know whether they are the pending approver, or if the Expense is pending someone else's
approval.
Select the Customize option under the My Team Expenses Drop Down List.
You will now see the Workflow User column with the User that the Expense is Pending Approval by.
NOTE: This process can be repeated for the My Expenses List and the My Timesheets List as well.
My Timesheets list –
2. Timesheets that others submitted on your behalf for your Employee ID.
A very common report we all use at payroll year end time is the year end wage report.
On this report by default the commas display in the header, but are not used in the body of the report.
Would make it more readable if wages, taxes etc. used the value definitions like commas.
With the 18.6 release, commas are added to numbers that display on the Year End Wage Report in Payroll.
From the Payroll Home page, under Routines, choose Payroll Year-End wage report.
Prior to 18.6
18.6 Release
Typically, customers like to use this mail merge reporting option as a way to notify of Expiration and test
due dates.
From the Employee Maintenance window, you can choose to Write Letters and prepare a new letter or
modify an existing letter.
With the final notice collection letter, the system did not allow you to print the notice and add invoice
details.
With the release of 18.6, you can now modify any of the Collection Letter notices (1, 2 or 3/final) and add
the Invoice details to the report and it will print the information for the customer.
With the Microsoft Dynamics GP 18.6 release, you have the ability to completely remove attachments
from Dynamics GP. To enable this functionality, you need to navigate to Microsoft Dynamics GP > Tools
> Setup > Company > Document Attachment Setup. Once there you need to mark "Allow attachments to
be deleted."
When you want to delete an attachment the user's process would then be:
1) Pull up the Document Attachment Management window that contains the attachment you want to
delete
3) Click the Delete button. This will move the attachment to the Deleted tab on this window. If you
specified a password on the deletion process this is where you will be challenged for that.
4) When you switch to the Deleted tab on this window you will see that a new button, Delete, is added to
the Action Pane. When you click on that it will completely remove the attachment.
With all the work we have done around Modern Authentication (MFA) and customers using it heavily,
Shared Mailbox was something customers found they needed.
The initial setup for this occurs in the Sales E-mail Setup (Microsoft Dynamics GP > Tools > Setup > Sales
> E-mail Settings) and Purchasing E-mail Setup (Microsoft Dynamics GP > Tools > Setup > Purchasing >
E-mail Settings) windows.
In these windows you will see a new checkbox, Use Shared Mailbox. When you mark that the "Have
Replies Sent to:" field will clear and change to "Shared Mailbox:".
You can enter the e-mail address you want documents e-mailed from that series (Sales or Purchasing) to
both appear to be e-mailed from and have replies sent back to,
After that, you will also need to add an additional API permission to the App Registration in Azure
3) Open the App Registration that you're using for Modern Authentication in Dynamics GP
9) In the items that are returned you should already have "Mail.Send" marked. You will need to mark
"Mail.Send.Shared" for the new feature
11) To finalize this, click the "Grant admin consent for %domain%" button on the API permissions window.
All permissions in the list should have a green checkmark in the Status column when this is completed.
In terms of a user's experience with this feature, when they first attempt to perform an e-mail action in
their Dynamics GP session they will be presented with the same sign-in window that they always see when
using Modern Authentication. They would log in as their own account there. When they email the Sales
or Purchasing document it will send as the account specified in the Shared Mailbox field.
It is important to note that the account you use to sign into email needs to be able to send on
behalf of the Shared Mailbox account. This delegation is something that needs to be setup in
Exchange by an appropriate administrator.
If there is a problem with this setup you will get the following when you attempt to e-mail:
You can go to Start > Run, type %temp% and click OK to open the temp directory. When you look at the
DynamicsGP_MSGraphEmail.log file you will see something like the following:
Message: The user account which was used to submit this request does not have the right to send mail on
behalf of the specified sending account., Cannot submit message.
ClientRequestId: 0acbbd6f-8b50-4b53-8fcd-c6ae4e87eac3
This error explains they the user is not setup to email on behalf of the shared mailbox account and
adjustments need to be made in Exchange/Microsoft 365.
Table Changes
There are more security-minded customers that require the multi-tenant authentication option in the
Azure App Registration. Prior to 18.6 release, if you select the single-tenant option, the Modern Auth
window in Dynamics GP will give "Unknown error".
The main difference between Single and Multi-tenant is what the authentication URL looks like, If it
contains /common it is going to use multi-tenant. In order to use single tenant, it has to also include the
Tenant ID.
This option in the app registration is something you can pick when you're first setting it up, or
alternatively in the Authentication settings page in an existing app registration:
To accommodate this ability a new field, Tenant ID (Optional), has been added to the Company E-mail
Setup (Microsoft Dynamics GP > Tools > Setup > Company > E-mail Settings) window:
The value for this field comes from the Overview page of your App Registration in the Azure Portal. The
specific field is called "Directory (tenant) ID". Copy that value into the Tenant ID field in Company E-mail
Setup, along with the Application (client) ID, to enable Modern Authentication e-mail in Dynamics GP.
Table Changes