GP 9 Dilemma

[MeghanJean]

We are currently on GP 9 and that is the only version we have had. The sales department has complained from the beginning about the cosmetics of the SOP order and invoice. We did modify the standard reports in Report Writer and the main issue is with notes and wanting blank lines to print between groups of items like they were accustom to prior to GP. The dilemma is whether to have all the reports done in either Crystal or SRSS while still running GP 9 or will there be many changes in GP 10 to the reports. Any and all pros and cons would be appreciated.

Jean

 

[janakirammp]

Meghan,

Your best bet would be Crystal. Have you looked at GP Reports solution from Flex-Solutions. You can check with them if this could be acomplished with their Reports solution.

http://www.flex-solutions.com

Thanks
Janakiram M.P.
MCP-GP

http://janakirammp.blogspot.com

 

[VictoriaYudin]

Jean,

There was a similar question to this on the Dynamics Community forum recently:

https://community.dynamics.com/forums/t/21194.aspx.

Here is a part of what I wrote there in response:

We get this question a lot and this, to me, is one of the benefits of using Crystal Reports. 99.5% of the time the answer is that your Crystal reports will just keep working as they did with no changes needed when you upgrade GP. This is primarily because it is very rare for Microsoft to take away tables or fields in a new version, usually they are just added. However, once in a while it does happen, so to be 100% certain, you will, of course, want to test each of your Crystal reports with GP 10.0. We have created reports for customers starting with version 6.0 of GP that are still working just fine after upgrading to GP 10.0.

All of the above will also be true for SRS reports. My 2 cents is if you are not happy with your reports today, you should fix them today. An impending upgrade to GP 10.0 should not be a reason to live with the pain of inadequate reporting.

As Janakiram mentioned (thanks Janakiram!) we have a solution called GP Reports Viewer that works with Crystal Reports. We will also be adding support for SRS soon as we are getting many requests from users for it. So pick whichever reporting tool you are more comfortable with (or if you are having someone else write the reports for you, go with their recommendation).

Victoria Yudin
Dynamics GP MVP 2005 - 2009
Flexible Solutions - home of GP Reports

http://www.flex-solutions.com/gpreports.html

blog:

http://victoriayudin.com

 

[winthropdc]

You can also look at the Crystal report integration solutions from other vendor's:

http://www.rocktonsoftware.com/products.aspx?p=3

http://www.accountable.com/FormsPrinter.asp?Product=Forms

Printer

http://www.synergistix.net/Products.aspx

See what can work best for you.


David Musgrave [MSFT]
Escalation Engineer - Microsoft Dynamics GP
Microsoft Dynamics Support - Asia Pacific

Microsoft Dynamics (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions)

http://www.microsoft.com/Dynamics

http://blogs.msdn.com/DevelopingForDynamicsGP

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