From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Blogs: Budgets with Excel; Extract and save GP Doc Attach files; GP Power Tools displays

From this week's Microsoft Dynamics GP blogs:

• Easy Budget Creation for Dynamics GP with Excel Wizard
• Extract Dynamics GP Document Attach Files From SQL Server and Save To Disk
• Extract and Save Dynamics GP Document Attach Files Using .NET
• GP Power Tools Build 22 Hotfix Available for Download

Easy Budget Creation for Dynamics GP with Excel Wizard

On the Tidestone Solutions blog, the Tidestone team described how Microsoft Dynamics GP comes with an out-of-the-box budgeting tool that integrates with Microsoft Excel, enabling a user to create, update, and report on budgets. They write: 

Budgets can be setup based on a fiscal year or a pre-defined period of time. This can be helpful for organizations working on a grant-based budget that spans beyond one fiscal year.

The budgeting tool enables businesses to create budget templates, distribute to management by cost center, and finally combine all into an agency-wide budget. Thus keeping all stakeholders involved in a process and not requiring any reformatting of submissions and/or manual keying into GPAn Excel wizard helps users walk through the process.

You can see screenshots of how it works here.

Extract Dynamics GP Document Attach Files from SQL Server and Save To Disk

On the Dynamics GP Land blog, Steve Endow wrote that someone asked him if there was a way to read an image file from the Dynamics GP Document Attach table so that the image could be added to a report. For example, in the event that a customer wanted to display item images on an invoice.

Endow wrote that since ...