1. Welcome! Microsoft Dynamics GP User Group (GPUG)
Detroit Chapter Meeting
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Agenda
Welcome & Introductions
GPUG News & Chapter Business
Educational Session – Refreshable Excel Reports
Member Showcase – Global LT
Educational Session – SmartList Builder
Roundtable Discussions
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3. Welcome & introductions
Name
Company
Role in Company
Microsoft Dynamics GP Version
What version of GP are you currently using?
What is the best or worst holiday present you’ve received? (Christmas, birthday, etc.)
Use this slide to do an introduction roundtable with your members!

4. Next meeting? Thank you to our Annual Chapter Sponsors!
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Leading live-event featuring community- produced education and optimal networking opportunities.
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October 16-19

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9. Sponsor Videos Solver with Nils Rasmussen Journyx with Brian Maxin
ADP with Ryan Bosmeny

10. Presented by Jeff Pfershy
Refreshable Excel Reports – How to deploy, secure, & create new reports
Presented by Jeff Pfershy
Solution Consultant
The TM Group
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11. (Free) Reporting Tool Choices in GP
Business Analyzer?
SSRS?
SmartLists?
Excel Reports belongs in your bag of tricks!

12. WHO are Typical Consumers WHY Excel Reports are AWESOME !
WHAT is an Excel Report
WHO are Typical Consumers
WHY Excel Reports are AWESOME !
Excel Reports are a set of preconfigured Excel files that have a connection to your GP data, so they can be refreshed any time.
Typical consumers are anyone outside your normal ERP users – Executives / C-level, Business Analysts, Department/Division Managers, Salespeople, etc.
Excel is the tool of choice for many of us, and something we use on a daily basis. Excel Reports also enable non-ERP users to answer their own questions about their vendors, customers and other aspects of their business without asking someone in accounting or finance to get them the info – Self Service BI!
Became available in GP Today I’m using GP 2016 R2.

13. Dashboards & Much More ANY data in GP and other sources…
Agings, Vendor Spend, Projects, Inventory, you name it…
Real-time, Refreshable, Customizable
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17. Measure Twice, Cut it Once
Plan your deployment (with paper and pencil) !
SharePoint (online or on-prem) or Network Share
Who needs access? Sales, Purchasing, Ops, C-Level?
Work with your IT team – chances are good you’ll need their help!
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18. Two Levels of Security – AD and SQL
For Network Shares:
Active Directory
Determine where the folder share will be located – it must be able to connect to the SQL server!
The person must have an AD account in your organization’s domain
Their account must have at least ‘Change’ rights to the shared folder you want them to access
For information on deploying to SharePoint please refer to the GP documentation.

19. Two Levels of Security – AD and SQL
For Network Shares:
SQL Access
The person’s AD account must be added as a SQL login AND be assigned to the appropriate database and ‘rpt_’ role
‘rpt_’ roles grant read access to different areas of information
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20. ‘rpt’ roles in each GP database

21. Some of the rights in a ‘rpt’ role

22. Reporting Tools Setup To deploy Excel Reports
In GP go to Setup > System > Reporting Tools
2 sets of folders created – Data Connections and Reports, then a set of folders for each GP company

23. Reporting Tools Setup Normal folder structure for each company
The same structure existso for Data Connections and Reports.
Each GP module you use will have a set of reports
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24. To Infinity and Beyond! How to create ‘new’ reports?
Method 1 - If you only want to see the data different ways, then just ‘Save As…’ As long as the place where you save it has access to the SQL server, the data can be refreshed

25. To Infinity and Beyond! How to create ‘new’ reports?
Method 2 – Create a new data connection for your own custom SQL query.
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26. Method 2 Steps Create your custom query in SQL, test and save it.
Open an existing Excel Report (I use the same series), go to Data > Connections > Properties > Command Text
Paste your query over the existing statement in the window.
Click ‘Export Connection File’. Give the new odc file a unique name and save it. Cancel out of the Connections window.

27. Method 2 Steps
Open a new Excel file and go to Data > Existing Connections > Browse… find your saved odc file and click Open.
Click Properties, change the connection name / description.
Click OK in the Import Data window and Voila! Now you have a new custom Excel Report.
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28. Existing data connection window

29. In your new Excel file choose Existing Connection under the Data tab

30. Browse for your new ODC file and open it

31. Don’t forget to change the name and description of the data connection

32. Don’t forget to change the name and description of the data connection

33. Added bonus – Add one or more Slicers to dynamically filter data.

34. Slicers can be added for each column of data.

35. In my sample I chose the fiscal year and period.
You can select multiple items using the icon I’ve highlighted

36. Extra Tips
IF you create a SQL statement that the ‘rpt’ role doesn’t have permissions for (select or execute), the SQL objects used need to be added to the database role permissions; or a new custom ‘rpt’ role needs to be created and the appropriate windows users added to the role.
In Excel 2013 and above, you can use ‘slicers’ in your reports to filter on one or more values. Access slicers by clicking anywhere on your downloaded table and select ‘Insert Slicer’ from the Table Tools Design menu

37. Questions?
Feel free to reach out – here’s my contact info: Jeff Pfershy Cell: Thank you for your time today!
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38. Member Showcase Featuring:
Global LT
Rachel Cilli
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39. Member Showcase Who We Are and What We Do What Modules We Use Version
Number of Users
How Long
What ISV's and How We Use Them
Favorite Module and Why
Tips & Tricks / Way to Improve Processes (what surprised you that you didn’t know)
Where Do We Go for Answers
Questions?
The outline below may be useful in developing a Member Showcase presentation for use during a chapter meeting.  
Introduce yourself
Provide an Overview of Company
Primary business activity
Industry
Locations
# of Employees
Revenue size (if appropriate)
Introduce others from your company in attendance, and including yourself, review
Job roles
How long with company
How long using Dynamics
Other interesting items
Discuss how your company is using Dynamics
How many users
How long
What version(s)
What segments and for what purposes
ISV products used/customizations
Share a “case study” from your experience regarding your company’s use of Dynamics
Pick a project/initiative. It could be your Dynamics implementation overall or perhaps a specific solution within or around Dynamics that Dynamics helped solve.
What is the problem your organization was trying to solve?
What pain the problem was causing your organization?
What alternatives did you evaluate?
Who in your org was involved in the alternative evaluation?
Which option/approach did you select?
How did you start the project?
How did you get your users onboard and engaged?
General thoughts of the implementation?
What results were accomplished?
How did you measure the results?
Subjective opinion of the results?
Lessons Learned.
Questions and Answers

40. Networking Break Follow us on Twitter: @gpug
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41. Nicole Albertson of eOne Solutions
SmartList Builder
Nicole Albertson of eOne Solutions
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42. Roundtable discussions – You Choose!
Here are a few suggestions to get the conversation started
Power BI
GP 2016
SmartList
PSTL

43. Thank you for attending our meeting, and we look forward to seeing you next time! Please provide feedback by completing the post meeting survey. Your opinion is valued!