Victoria Yudin | Ramblings and musings of a Dynamics GP MVP
Description: A VBA or VB.NET procedure to raise a custom desktop alert in Dynamics GP.
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First off, full credit goes to David Musgrave for sharing the bulk of this code with me and for providing some great troubleshooting help as I worked to call the code properly from VBA.
Allow me to share some background information. While at Convergence 2012 in Houston this year, I attended a presentation on the Support Debugging Tool by David Musgrave and Mariano Gomez . (Protip: I’ve found the sessions they run to be the most valuable ones at Convergence, by far.)
At the session, David mentioned in passing that the Support Debugging Tool was configured to raise a “Desktop Alert” when certain criteria were met. As soon as he demoed this, I thought – this would be a great way to provide feedback to a user without interrupting their workflow. Up until now, any time I wanted to provide a message to the user (such as “Data Saved”, etc) the only tool I had in my toolbox was a message box which they would have to click on to dismiss.
Victoria Yudin | Ramblings and musings of a Dynamics GP MVP