Create Chunk file in dexterity for Dynamics GP

1. Open Dexterity Utilities
2. Navigate to File Menu –> Open Source Dictionary (Dictionary you used for your development.)
3. Go to Utilities ->Extract

•                   Give a name for your Extracted Dictionary
•                   Now your Extract dictionary will have all your new forms and reports.

4. Navigate to File Menu –> Open Destination Dictionary ( Use extracted dictionary created in previous step.)
5. Go to Transfer ->Dictionary module

•                   Modified GP Forms and Reports will be updated

5. Close the Source and Destination Dictionary
6. Navigate to File Menu –> Open  Editable Dictionary ( Use extracted Dictionary )
7. Go to Utilities ->Product Information

•                     Enter the details of your product

8. Go to Utilities
9. Auto Chunk

Before performing the above steps its a good and time saving practice to create macro file so that you need not again and again do the above steps.Below are the steps to create macro file in dexterity utilities.

Before creating chunk ,in menu bar you can see a menu named Macro.

1. click Macro
2. select Record

That’s it, from then on what ever you do inside the window will be recorded. once you have completed all the above steps stop macro. Next time when creating chunk file just run the macro.

Also do have a look into David Musgrave Best Practice for Dexterity Version and Build Numbers explaining a very important concept that should be followed in chunk creation process.

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