The Dynamics GP Blogster: Leveraging Custom Links to track carrier shipments in Sales Order Processing

Mariano explains Leveraging Custom Links to track carrier shipments in Sales Order Processing

Weekly Review: More Custom Links

We’ve looked at Custom Links before but it’s time to a few more tips. The field on the Custom Link window is name Internet Address but in reality this doesn’t have to be a website. It can be a link to a local file, an application, an email address (using mailto://), etc.

For example this could be used to launch a banking application from a link to a checkbook. In the example below, the custom link will launch a remote desktop session.

Originally Posted by Mark Polino at 4/19/2010 09:00:00 AM

Dynamics GP Custom Links - Shipment Tracking

Michael Johnson reminds us how cool the Custom Links feature can be in Dynamics GP Custom Links - Shipment Tracking. It doesn’t matter how much you cover this stuff, people only go looking for it at the point of need.

Weekly Dynamic: More Custom Links

We’ve looked at Custom Links before but it’s time to a few more tips. The field on the Custom Link window is name Internet Address but in reality this doesn’t have to be a website. It can be a link to a local file, an application, an email address (using mailto://), etc.

For example this could be used to launch a banking application from a link to a checkbook. In the example below, the custom link will launch a remote desktop session.

Dynamics GP 10 – Custom Links

My talented colleague Amy Walsh is back with a look at  Custom Links at the DynamicsCare website.

Weekly Dynamic:Custom Links

Custom Links were first available in v8 for GP and continue on in v9. A custom link let you associate a link with an item in GP. For example, you can associate a bank website with a checking account. Then, when you click on the hyperlink to the account, you get a choice to go to the external link or the account in GP.

Custom links are setup in Tools-Setup-Company-Custom Link.

• Click New to add a link
• Select the item to add a link to. For demo purposes, pick checkbooks
• Give the link a description like "Website"
• Pick an associated item, in this case a bank account
• Enter the link. You don't have to enter Http://. You can just enter the address like www. dynamicaccounting.net.

Now if you go into Bank Transaction Entry, start a transaction, pick the bank account from above and select the blue hyperlinked checkbook, you'll get a dropdown dialogue showing your custom link.

This works well for things like bank websites, currency sites, vendor sites, etc. It's more universal than a shortcut and easier to make available to everyone.