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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook Over 100 powerful and effective recipes to help you solve real-world Dynamics GP problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786463401
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ian Grieve Ian Grieve
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Mark Polino Mark Polino
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Personalizing Dynamics GP FREE CHAPTER 2. Organizing Dynamics GP 3. Automating Dynamics GP 4. Leveraging New and Updated Features in Dynamics GP 5. Exposing Hidden Features in Dynamics GP 6. Improving Dynamics GP with Hacks 7. Preventing Errors in Dynamics GP 8. Harnessing the Power of SmartLists 9. SmartList Designer 10. Connecting Dynamics GP to Microsoft Office 2016 11. Maintaining Dynamics GP 12. Extending Dynamics GP Professional Services Tools Library 13. Modern Business Intelligence for Dynamics GP Index

Speeding up access to information with SmartList Favorites

SmartLists are designed for individual users to tailor reporting to their needs. This is important because users have the ability to save their unique SmartLists and make them available to be reused over and over again.

Default SmartLists are represented by an asterisk and can be customized by moving fields around, adding or removing fields, filtering the data to be returned, and sorting data in interesting ways. However, the time and effort required to do all of that is lost if a user can't save and reuse those unique settings. Saved SmartLists are called Favorites and they are the focus of this recipe.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we'll set up a SmartList and save it as Favorite:

  1. Select the SmartList icon from the menu bar at the top or select the Microsoft Dynamics GP menu from the top and click on SmartList.
  2. Select Financial, then Accounts from the list on the left.
  3. Click on the Account Number column heading to sort by...
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