- [Instructor] Reports in Dynamics GP include
your check layout,
your sales order invoice layout,
your purchase order layout.
As well as things you more typically think
of as reports such a receivables aged trial balance
or a inventory stock status report
or these types of things.
If any of your reports have been modified,
and almost always, for instance,
the AP check is almost always has to be modified
to fit the layout for your company.
Then your report dictionary has been altered
from the out of the box report dictionary.
So you need to be really concerned
about making sure that gets backed up
if you're doing any changes to these report layouts.
Let me show you where you can find the location
of your report dictionary.
Click on administration.
And then under the system menu you will see
a choice for edit launch file.
Click on the product, Microsoft Dynamics GP,
and below you will see the path
to the application dictionary,
the forms dictionary and the reports dictionary.
The reports dictionary is where you will find modifications
to your built-in Dynamics GP report.
Modifications that were done
with the built-in report writer called
Dynamics GP report writer.
That's a proprietary report writing tool
that is inherent
within Dynamics GP.
This file is always called reports dot DIC.
And again, make sure you understand where it's located
on your network and that it gets backed up frequently.
And to understand any
customizations to screens that might have been done
with the modifier module.
Understand where that's located again
by seeing where the forms dot DIC file
is located on your network.
It's a good idea to put these important files
in a safe location on the network
and make sure that everybody's launch file
is pointed to the same file.
Sometimes there's confusion because people
have a different instance of GP,
a different installation.
Some people might be running it through Citrix
or through remote desktop,
and other people are running it locally on their PC,
and they're not all pointed
to the same reports dot DIC file.
So when they run their report,
they're getting a different version
which is probably not what you want.
Again, by using edit launch file
under administration system,
you can see the location to these important setup files.