Darian Hanson, Microsoft Management Reporter Darian Hanson, Microsoft

What’s coming and new with CU15 Other notable Features prior to CU15 Management Reporter What’s coming and new with CU15 Https feature, XPS print feature, Search on Web Viewer Other notable Features prior to CU15 Data Validation, Company Integrations, Notifications Top Issues to Support Account setup common issues, Currency Translation, Performance, Data Integrity, Installation prep and recommendations

Critical Update 15 Here’s a summary of the new Management Reporter CU15 features: ·         Improved responsiveness in the Web Viewer ·         A search bar has been added to search through the current level of the report. In-browser search functions may not always return all results because of the performance changes to improve responsiveness ·         Printing in the Web Viewer through XPS download ·         PowerShell module to enable reset of data mart ·         Add Turkish (tr-tr) localization ·         Additional fixes for product defects

Feature to rebuild your Data Mart Uses Powershell to do this process Allows one to keep transaction detail of previous generated reports Steps to why a rebuild may be needed and how to set this up are listed on the MR Blog site: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dynamics_finan cial_reporting/2016/06/28/resetting-the- management-reporter-data-mart/

Post CU15 Features & Enhancements Hot Fix 1 – Released 5/13 Fixed issue with Ranges used on report and a SQL Change tracking issue Hot Fix 2 – Released 6/1 MR AX only – for a Regulatory feature for Brazil Hot Fix 3 – Released 7/11 MR GP only - Fixed several issues with Performance with Analytical Accounting, Integration with GP2016 Data Validation and Dexterity Components

Post CU15 Features & Enhancements More to Come! Https Integration for Management Reporter – Planning October time frame One it is posted, it will be on the MR Blog site: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dynamics_financial_reporting/

Highlights from Previous Updates Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference 2013 4/30/2018 8:22 PM Highlights from Previous Updates CU11 – December 2014 Currency Translation fixes for Microsoft Dynamics GP Improved performance for integration and report generation Ability to drill into a Total row from within the Web Viewer Companies can be enabled or disabled for reporting within Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 CU12 – April 2015 Added the ability to use BASE+1:12 in the column definition Ability to exclude NP rows from exporting to Excel by disabling the export of formulas Ability to export NP rows at the Account and Transaction detail levels Additional fixes for exporting to Excel where you would receive an operand error when exporting with formulas enabled CU13 – July 2015 Removed Licensing – All ERP’s get an unlimited licenses model. Several reporting display updates CU14 – November 2015 Change Period and re-generate report from Web Viewer Many XPS export updates CU10 – September 2014 Account category no longer displays in drilldown Included row total formulas when downloading to Excel Select companies to be included in data mart (Dynamics GP 2010 and 2013) Choose to include AA data in the data mart (Dynamics GP 2010 and 2013) © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Data Validation https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dynamics_financial_reporting/2014/05/16/erp-data-validation-with-data-mart-cu9-feature/

Data Validation

Data Validation Financial Reports from Management Reporter do not match the General Ledger Trial Balance Reports in Microsoft Dynamics GP   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2910626

Notifications

Blog article to setup notifications: https://blogs. msdn. microsoft

Company Integration (Disable\Enable AA)

Company Integration (Disable/Enable AA)

Several Web Viewer Enhancements

Several Web Viewer Enhancements

Several Web Viewer Enhancements

Top Issues to Support Full Account structure/Account Categories Currency Translation Data Validation Performance – Report Generation & Integration Step to do prior to installing MR2012

Full Account structure/Account Categories Management Reporter is a Dimension Based Reporting Solution, so setting up your chart of account to align to this is important. Make sure your main segment is specified correctly in GP. (Tool | Setup | Company | Account Format) Make sure all accounts that have the same main segment are assigned to the same account category **If not setup this way there will be conflicting results between main account and full account in GP. Some example are: full accounts in incorrect Categories, translations not working as expected

Currency Translation Since Management Reporter is a Dimension Based Reporting Solution, it is important to be consistent in assigning Current, Average, or Historical to the main segment. This is assigned to your accounts in (Cards | Financial | Account Currencies) To quickly update this for all accounts assigned to a main segment (Card |Financial | Currency Account Update) **Typically, Balance Sheet accounts are set to Current, Profit & Loss accounts are set to Average, and things like Retained Earnings, Property, Plant, and Equipment are set to Historical.

Currency Translation Also, there is some confusion on how Current, Average, and Historical work. The following Blog articles are a great reference guide to go deeper into each of these translation types: Current: https://community.dynamics.com/gp/b/dynamicsgp/archive/2016/03/15/management-reporter-currency-translation-using-the-current-translation-type Average: https://community.dynamics.com/gp/b/dynamicsgp/archive/2016/03/17/management-reporter-currency-translation-using-the-average-translation-type Historical: https://community.dynamics.com/gp/b/dynamicsgp/archive/2016/03/16/management-reporter-currency-translation-using-historical-translation-type

Data Mart Data Issues Misconception: When running a report the Data Mart data is bad, so just rebuild it. **This really should be a last step and not the first. Make sure to utilize the Data Validation functionality previously mentioned. If there are data issues here, your account balances will be off. If the Data Validation is giving no errors, start simple, and create a test report. Create a row definition with the account that has the incorrect balance Create a column with the period the balance is off at. (If main report is off on a YTD balance, create all 12 periods to find out what period has the incorrect balance Create a Report Definition to include the test row and column. Generate the test report to validate the data for that account. If it is correct here, it is most likely a formatting issue on your main report. If incorrect, this maybe an issue where one has to look into the transaction in the GP tables to find what is wrong with the transaction. Best to find the journal entry that is off for this account.

Performance Problems The 2 areas where we see Performance cases come in from are: Integration Report Generation

Integration Performance Problems Items causing performance issues with the integration: 1. System Specification are too low. 2. SQL Statistics out of date on GP company and system database. -- sp_updatestats can be ran on databases to correct this. 3. Data Issues -- Important to clean up data issues that the Data Validation gives. 4. On an old release of Management Reporter – Post CU10 has been improving.

Report Generation Performance Items causing performance issues with Report Generation: System Specifications not met on previous slide. Report setup (Try the following to narrow down where the cause is) If the report uses a tree, try it without the tree Setup a test row with 1 account, run report with that test row Setup a test column with just a DESC, FD Periodic, FD YTD column, run report with that column. Avoid using wildcards unless needed. If your have a range of just 2 accounts put Acct1+Acct2. If you need to subtract an account from a range. Use a range on both side of the account you need to subtract. Instead of doing 1* - 1150, do 1100:1149 + 1151:1999

What to do in GP prior to installing MR2012?

Currency Setup Verify ISO codes System-wide setting, and only has to be completed once Microsoft Dynamics GP | Tools | Setup | System | Currency Verify currency access to company: Microsoft Dynamics GP | Tools | Setup | System | Multicurrency Access Verify Functional Currency for each company: Microsoft Dynamics GP | Tools | Setup | Financial | Multicurrency Run Checklinks for MultiCurrency for each company if prompted

Dimension Names & User Defined Segment Names Dynamics GP select Tools -> Setup -> Company -> Account Format AA Dimensions Dynamics GP select Cards -> Financial -> Analytical Accounting -> Transaction Dimension Click the lookup button Must be unique and cannot be the same as a GP segment name User Defined Fields Dynamics GP select Tools -> Setup -> Financial -> General Ledger User Defined fields must be unique non blank values User Defined field values are case sensitive between companies

Account Master – Account Combinations Missing data for a particular account or account combination and possible error with Dimension Values Task Segment Value length in GL40200 Larger than defined in SY00300 Segment Value in GL40200 not defined in GL00100 Segment Number in GL40200 not defined in SY00300 Common Cause: Incorrect import to Account Master Resolution: CheckLinks on Account Master

Submitting a Service Request Management Reporter Version (Help > About) Error messages Configuration Console logs (Data Mart Integration, Deployment, Service) Event Viewer on MR Server At what point did the issue start

Questions?

Speaker contact info Darian Hanson Microsoft darianh@microsoft.com