Stop and Look before you Code

Archived post from 2009. Dynamics GP and the links it points to have changed since; check current documentation before relying on version-specific steps.

Dave Musgrave has a great post up on when it makes sense to create a customization. We tend to follow a hierarchy similar to the one that David outlines:

1) Standard Functionality
2) Process Redesign or Field Repurposing
3) ISV Solution
4) Partial ISV Solution with customization
5) Previously created customization
6) Customization from scratch

Make sure that you check out David’s whole article.

Original article: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/developingfordynamicsgp/2009/01/29/before-you-write-a-customization-check-solution-finder/