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Introduction: In this blog, I will demonstrate how to Undo and then Redo Quantity Posting on a Posted Return Shipments in Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Business Central. This functionality is useful if user ship the wrong quantity or selected the wrong item for Purchase return order. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics NAV Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Demonstration: NOTE:  You cannot undo a posting if purchase credit memo is posted. 1. In the search option, enter Posted Purchase Return Shipment and then choose the related link. 2. Open the Posted Purchase Return Shipment that you want to undo. 3. Select the  Posted Purchase Return Shipment L ines that you want to undo. 4. In Lines, click on Function button and choose Undo return shipment action. 5. Choose Yes in pop up box. 6.  A corrective line inserted under the selected return shipment line. 7.  The Return Quantity Shipped  field on the related purchase order...

Introduction: In this blog, I will demonstrate how to undo a Quantity Posting on a Posted Purchase Receipt in Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Business Central. This functionality is useful if user receive the wrong quantity or selected the wrong item for Purchase order. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics NAV Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Demonstration: NOTE: You cannot undo a posting if the purchase invoice is posted. 1.     In the search option, enter Posted Purchase Receipts and then choose the related link. 2.     Open the Posted Purchase Receipts that you want to undo. 3.     Select the Posted Purchase Receipt Lines that you want to undo. 4.     In Lines, click on Function button and choose Undo receipt action. 5.     Choose Yes in pop up box. 6.     A corrective line inserted under the selected receipt line. 7.      The...

Problem Statement: Few months ago on a client requirement gathering session for Business Central, I realized that the client is asking for portal where the Vendors / Customers can fill in their basic data so that the data is correct and it saves our time to prepare the master.  The easiest way of doing this was by using Microsoft Forms. In this case, I need it for Vendors, so let's see how we can use Forms, Flow and Business Central and integrate them together. Pre- Requisites: Microsoft Flow Microsoft Office Forms Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Solution: The solution I found was creating Form and using Flow integrate the data from the Form into Business Central 1. Create Form with fields which you want to set on the Vendors Creation Form fields. 2. Create Flow to take each record inserted in Form and integrate this record to Business Central Creating Flow which loops through each record and passes it to Business Central Output: After inserting the...

Problem Statement : I have a requirement where the contents of the General Journals are to export to Excel and also can create new entries by importing the same Excel file as well. A major troublemaker is the dimensions as only Dimensions 1&2 ate stored in tables and can be validated easily but 3-8 are set at run-time through variables on the page. In this blog, I'll be attempting to resolve how to automatically apply dimensions from 3-8 using the code. Pre-requisites: VS Code AL Language Extension Functional knowledge of  Dimensions Microsoft Dynamics NAV /  Business Central Solution: 1. Understanding how dimensions work technically: Any dimensions that are inserted in an entry in the system are validated to be stored in the Dimension Set Entries table. Dimension Set Entries table of which Dimension Set ID is set on the Table. This Dimension Set Entry ID is stored on the entries to be used as a reference. For instance, if we want to Apply Dimens...

Introduction: In this blog I aim to provide how to set Mandatory Dimensions on Items,Customers, Vendors and G/L Accounts and how to optimize this process using Configuration package. Pre-requisites : Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Microsoft Dynamics Business Central. Understanding of Dimensions in NAV / BC Theory: Automatic Dimensions can be added for the G/L Accounts, Customers, Vendor and Items. The Value Posting can be selected as per the below Table. Value Posting Explanation Blank No posting restriction. Transactions can be posted with any dimension value or without a dimension value. Code Mandatory Any dimension value for the given dimension can be added. If dimension value is blank then NAV / BC will throw an error Same Code Only a single dimension value defined in Default Dimension can be used while posting. No Code Dimensions must not be specified on the transactions. This also implies that you can add the Default Dimension, No Dimension, Mandatory Dimension a...