Category: How Tos

Correcting a Duplicate User in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

It was the perfect storm that unfurled to cause this commotion that had us spinning our wheels for a while. A User left the company and had been deactivated in CRM (we’ll call this record User1). Due to policy (I’m guessing policy, as I have heard the practice is not recommended) the user Account was deleted in Active Directory (AD). Well, lo and behold, this User decided to return to the company within a few months of leaving. When the Administrator attempted to reactivate the User within CRM, they were unable to because the User was no longer in AD; the User was added again in CRM (the new User record will be User2). After this the User was once again set up within AD, but any attempt to log into CRM failed.

January 20, 2016

How To Do a Project Gap Analysis

Gap Analysis is a strategic planning tool to help understand where a project is, where it needs to be, and how to get there.

For a simplistic take, here is a project chart showing project status:

January 11, 2016

How to Avoid a Bad Project

Do you ever feel out of control of your project?

Over the past 27 years, I have worked on over 500 large scale projects. Within these 500+ projects, I have taken an interest in listening to client’s and other project professional’s previous experiences about projects that have gone bad. In these conversations, we can learn from failures and plan for better success in the future. But to be quite honest, I will do anything I can to prevent a project that I am working on from “going bad”. With that being said, there are some things that are outside of my control. As much as I want the project to be successful—I do need the client to be in control of the right things.

January 6, 2016

Filtering, and Find Information with a Click of Your Mouse

Excel is the tool of choice for getting data ready for import. Data is brought into Excel directly from the legacy program, or it is imported as a delimited file created by another application. Once the data is in Excel there are several strategies to prepare it for import. This article shows how easy it is to filter data with just the click of a mouse.

December 30, 2015

Setting Up and Running Recurring Transactions in Acumatica Cloud ERP

Last month, we discussed how uploading journal transactions in Acumatica Cloud ERP was one way of solving the problem of hand-keying large, multiple line journal entries into your general ledger each month. Having to make entries for depreciation expense, expensing pre-paids, allocating costs or making accruals can be tedious, while the exposure to error exists as well. The other way of combating these entry dilemmas is to create and run Recurring Transactions.

December 16, 2015

How to Set Default Parameters in SSRS Reports Based on CRM Roles

I enjoy working with SSRS reports and learning new things to help me build out reports that meet our clients’ needs. When a client comes to me with an interesting way they want something displayed or a request for a feature that is unknown to me, I jump at the chance to do it. I love a new challenge and it acts as a learning experience as well. A recent request came to me that required a little creativity on my part. It was to modify the default value of certain report parameters based on the security role the User had in CRM.

December 14, 2015

How to do a Return transaction in POP (The other side to a RMA in GP)

Step one is to understand what type of return transaction needs to be done.

Return document types are as follows1:

· Return:

December 8, 2015

How to increase profits and sales using CRM

Many times business executives get caught up in the details and miss the big picture. How do I increase sales, profits, and productivity? The answer might be right on your computer. Using Dynamics CRM, many options are available to easily and quickly increase your company's bottom line. Catching the attention of the Executive or Business owners in how to achieve better sales and profits and make more money is sometimes easier said then done. CRM is a company wide tool using technology to support a business strategy to improve, analyze and automate company sales, customer services, and marketing by combining them to improve the sales and profits of the company.

December 4, 2015

How to track projects using CRM

Before I present the options and the different ways to track projects in CRM, let’s look at the different aspects of project management that would be needed in any organization.

Resource Scheduling

Project planning &tracking

Time & Expense entry

November 24, 2015

How to Copy Word Template Formats

When working with Dynamics-GP we often go to format an invoice and realize that the return document or the order document are essentially the same format. We don’t want to have to spend the same time manually formatting the other documents when it would be easier to just copy the formats.

It isn’t as easy as just renaming the word template and importing it into GP; but it isn’t that hard as well. Below, I have documented the steps in the scenario of creating the SOP Blank Return from an already formatted SOP Blank Invoice word template.

November 12, 2015