GP Dexterity Product Fundamentals - Community Summit North America

Oct. 13-17, 2025
Orlando, FL

Gaylord Palms Resort
and Convention Center

PRECONFERENCE:

GP Dexterity Product Fundamentals

5-Day Bootcamp

The Dexterity Product Fundamentals 5-day bootcamp course will teach you about the development environment used to build the Microsoft Dynamics GP family of products. This course will provide you with the foundation you need to build integrated, database-independent applications. In addition, you will learn how to provide powerful application functionality for Dynamics GP.

What You Will Learn

Basic programming techniques used by Microsoft Dynamics GP to develop their core modules
How to modify existing Dynamics GP forms and reports in order to make customizations for customers
How to develop add-on applications that will interact with the Dynamics GP products to meet specific requests by customers
How to package and ship your dictionary allowing Microsoft Dynamics GP to make updates to Dynamics GP without affecting the developer’s dictionary
How to register your product with Microsoft Dynamics GP using a unique Product ID to ensure no duplication of add-on applications with the same Product ID
How to develop add-on applications that will “look and feel” like Dynamics GP and provide seamless interface between the applications to ensure a professional finished product
How to use object triggers, which are scripts in your applications that are invoked by events in Dynamics GP, allowing several developers to deliver enhancements to the same Dynamics GP form

Who should attend?

Customers or Partners who will be customizing or building add-on or standalone applications to integrate with the Dynamics GP products. Also great for Developers working other development tools who want to understand the internal workings of Dynamics GP.

Special Instructions

Prior to attending the course, it is highly recommended that students prepare for the course by going through the Dexterity Quick Start reference manual and working through the lessons in this manual. The Quick Start manual is installed with Dexterity and can be found under the Help-Online Manuals option from within Dexterity. Dexterity is located in the tools folder in the Dynamics GP DVD image.

Prerequisites:

Understanding of navigation and administration of Microsoft Dynamics GP.
Understanding of development concepts is helpful.

Computer Prerequisites:

Attendees will need a laptop with SQL Server and Microsoft Dynamics GP (preferably latest version) locally installed and running on it. Only sample company is needed.
Attendees must know the laptop’s administrator password, SQL Server ‘sa’ password and GP system password (if one is setup). As they will need to change settings and install software.
It is highly recommended that attendees bring a second screen or second device to be able to display the PDF training materials while they work on their primary display.

Agenda

Monday to Friday (5 days) 8:00-5:00 each day
Lunch is provided every day.

Course Topics

Day 1

Introductions and Overview
Dexterity Resources and Components
Create Basic Data Entry Project

Day 2

Complete Basic Data Entry Project
Script Debugger
Create Basic Lookup Project
Create Multi-user Data Entry Project

Day 3

Complete Multi-user Data Entry Project
Create Transaction Entry Project

Day 4

Complete Transaction Entry Project
Dexterity Utilities
Dynamics Integration Project

Day 5

Object Triggers
Additional Resources and Topics
Report Writer

Learning Objectives

1. Understanding of how Dexterity resources are created
2. Understanding of the Dexterity scripting language
3. Understanding of Dexterity triggers for integrating with existing code

PRE-CONFERENCE: Dexterity Fundamentals for Dynamics GP Registration

for Community Summit North America 2025

$3,000

5-day bootcamp course
Lunch is included.