Drilling Back to Source Data in Dynamics GP 2013 using Dashboards

In this article by Mark Polino, author of Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013, will walk you through the deployment of a dashboard. Once you deploy a dashboard, it's inevitable that someone will want more information. They won't believe a number and will want to know the detail that makes up a balance. A great way to manage this is to build a couple of dashboards. Usually, this looks like a primary dashboard with secondary dashboards that break out more information about sales, cash, or departments. We've done this on a very simple level with our Revenue and Net Income tabs. They provide additional detail to expand on the main dashboard numbers.

Another great way to deal with the need for detail, and to take your dashboard beyond what everyone else is doing, is to allow users to drill down into specific transactions or accounts in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013. In this article, we will look at drill down options including:

• Hyperlinks

• Using drill downs present in GP 2013

• The structure of a drill down

• Building your own links with Drill Down Builder

• Drill downs in complex environments

Migrating Data

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 is an Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP ) system targeted at small and medium-sized companies. In this article by Laura Nicolàs Lorente and Cristina Nicolàs Lorente from the book Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, we will see which tools can be used in Dynamics NAV to migrate data into the system and how to convert data to meet NAV requirements. We will look at tools such as:

• RapidStart Services

• XMLport

• User defined tools

We will also see what kind of data is commonly migrated to Dynamics NAV and which strategies can be used to migrate it. The kind of data and strategies are listed as follows:

• Master data

• Open entries

• Historical data

• Open documents

MinGW

Minimalist GNU for Windows (MinGW) is a native software port of the GNU tool chain for the Microsoft Windows operating system. The base components of MinGW software are compiler, linker, and assembler. This minimal tool set is enough to start developing applications. But MinGW contains some service utilities to make the developing process more effective:

In this article by Ilya Shpigor, the author of Instant MinGW Starter, you will learn how to perform some tasks with the most important features of MinGW :

• GNU Make

• GNU Debugger (GDB)

• GNU profiler

• Compiler for Windows resource files

• Header files and libraries for Windows API

• Collection of archives and packers

(For more resources related to this topic, see here.)

Animating a built-in button

This article by Nick Polyak, author of Instant Silverlight 5 Animation , will describe the process involved in animating a built-in button.

A Silverlight button has the following mouse-driven states:

• Normal

• MouseOver

• Pressed