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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

Resolving errors with the Check Links utility

Check Links and Reconcile are the two most commonly used utilities in Dynamics GP. Despite their common usage, their roles and outcomes are regularly misunderstood. We will look at Check Links in this recipe and move on to Reconcile for our next dish.

Check Links is a utility designed to review links between related tables for data consistency. For example, if there is a detail record, there should be a header record. The Check Links utility is able to compare header and details records and potentially rebuild damaged or missing data. When transaction data is unrecoverable, running Check Links will remove the damaged records, possibly requiring re-entry.

In many cases, if a header record is damaged, much of it can be repaired from the information in detail records. When possible, running the Check Links utility will rebuild header records. If a record is unrepairable, the Check Links utility can and will delete data, so it is a good idea to run...

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