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From the GP Blogs: How Check Links Work; The Value of Project Macros; VBA's Shift+F11 Function

by Jared Berezin
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How Check Links Work to Verify Integrity: In a characteristically thorough post, Mariano Gomez, the Dynamics GP Blogster, walks us through the beginnings of GP, the path to Microsoft Dexterity, and ultimately how Check Links work: "Check Links are entire procedures designed to analyze and remove any suspect records based on how tables are related in the application's dictionary... Check Links performs validations to make sure every record that is part of an atomic document (for example, a customer record, a purchase order, a sales order, an RM transaction, etc.) is valid within the context of that document. The check links algorithms sweep through the records in every table that is not the main table of a table group, then compare to the records in the main table. If there is any missing corresponding record in the main table, for the records currently being processed, these records in the table being processed are removed. For example, invoice line items cannot subsist without an invoice header record; invoice distributions, cannot subsist without a header record."

The Value of Project Macros: Dynamics GP Land asks, "How many of you have been caught off guard after installing project accounting on existing Dynamics GP installation, when it begins asking users if they want to add project info for vendors every time they try to enter purchase orders?

"Many of you may already realize that GP support has a set of macros, one for Customers and one for Vendors, that will run ...

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About Jared Berezin
Jared Berezin serves as a contributing writer to MSDynamicsWorld.com. With combined interests in technology and science, Jared previously served as a writer for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, drafting scientific narrative reports on the latest advancements in cancer research. Jared has also served as associate marketing specialist for International Data Corporation (IDC), a market research firm. In this position, he planned and executed strategic marketing initiatives for IDC's software and services research programs, and wrote outbound communications to the press, existing clients, and prospects. Jared also has experience working for several local newspapers in eastern Massachusetts. Jared graduated with honors from Colby College with a BA in English and creative writing.
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