#GPUGSummit | #INreno15 #GPUGSummit USING GP POWER TOOLS TO WRITE CUSTOM WEB SERVICES FOR MICROSOFT DYNAMICS GP David Musgrave MVP Managing Director, Winthrop Development Consultants Mariano Gomez MVP Senior Software Engineer, Mekorma

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  Introductions  History of GP Power Tools  Service Based Architecture  GP Power Tools and its Services implementation  Demonstration  Q & A 2 AGENDA

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  Managing Director of Winthrop Development Consultants  Microsoft Dynamics GP Most Valuable Professional (MVP)  Worked with Microsoft for 13 and a half years  Lives in Winthrop, a suburb in the city of Perth  Where is Perth, Western Australia? 3 DAVID MUSGRAVE

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 Senior Software Engineer at Mekorma  Microsoft Dynamics GP Most Valuable Professional (MVP)  Lives in Atlanta, Georgia, USA  Born on a small Colombian island off the coast of Nicaragua  Where is San Andres Island? 6 MARIANO GOMEZ

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 Introductions  History of GP Power Tools  Service Based Architecture  GP Power Tools and its Services implementation  Demonstration  Q & A 9 AGENDA

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  Support Debugging Tool (SDT) initially created in August 2006  Publically released in September 2008  Last release was Build 19 in September 2014 (Day before losing job)  Discontinued when David Musgrave left Microsoft in October 2014  Negotiations with Microsoft for exclusive rights finalized in March 2015  Renamed to Winthrop Development Consultants’ GP Power Tools (GPPT)  Release Build 20 for GP 2010, GP 2013 and GP 2015 in August 2015  Distributed and Supported worldwide by Mekorma 10 HISTORY

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  Introduced with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 (Version 14.0) – Service Enabled Procedures and.Net Interop  Service Enabled Procedures – Dexterity Global Procedures with Metadata to expose them externally as REST (Representational State Transfer) based web services – Allows external code to directly call Dexterity based business logic .Net Interop – Enables Dexterity sanScript code to re-use.Net objects with their methods and properties – Allows Dexterity code to directly call and use.Net objects 11 SERVICE BASED ARCHITECTURE

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  GP Power Tools has five Service Enabled Procedures – ServiceCreateCustomCreatePOSTin – ServiceDeleteCustomDeleteDELETEin – ServiceGetCustomGetGETin & out – ServiceUpdateCustomUpdatePATCHin – ServicePostCustomCustom*POSTin & out – * Must include Custom action definition: GP-Custom-Action=Post 12 GP POWER TOOLS SERVICES

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  One parameter is passed with URI – When calling the web service, there is a string parameter for Script ID  The additional parameters as Payload – The input parameter is a collection of strings: List – The output parameter (for Get and Post) is also: List – The Status returned is a Short  The data contained on each line of the collection must be defined – For Example: Line 1 = Customer Number – Line 2 = Customer Name 13 GP POWER TOOLS PARAMETERS

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  The Script ID passed into the service specifies a Runtime Execute Script ID to be run when the service is called. – The Runtime Execute window populates with a template script when the Custom Script Purpose for one of the Services is selected  The.Net collection of Strings: List are converted to Text fields – To make the script work with Runtime Execute, the payload in and out are converted to Text fields where each String in the collection is a line in the Text Field. – The template script handles the parsing of the Text field. 14 GP POWER TOOLS SERVICE IMPLEMENTATION

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  While the template scripts for the five services provide example code, the actual functionality can be completely user defined. – The Runtime Execute scripts can perform any action possible within the system  The scripts can use Helper Functions to run other scripts – You can run scripts created with Runtime Execute (Dexterity), SQL Execute (Transact-SQL) or.Net Execute (C# or Visual Basic.Net)  The scripts can use the Helper Functions to pass parameters – The Helper Functions can be used to pass values or scripts can be modified after they are loaded and before they are executed 15 GP POWER TOOLS SERVICE SCRIPTS

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  Going to use Services to create, update, get and delete a customer  Tweet using #GPPT #MSDYNGP #GPUGSummit 16 GP POWER TOOLS DEMONSTRATION

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#GPUGSummit | #INreno15 David Musgrave’s Winthrop Development Consultants Blog The Microsoft Dynamics GP Blogster blog (by Mariano Gomez) Developing for Microsoft Dynamics GP Blog – retired (by David Musgrave & the Developer Support Team) or 20 LINKS

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