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Introduction: In the earlier version of Business Central, the only way to copy data between companies was either to copy the company or upload the data through Configuration Packages or Rapid Start. Microsoft introduced Copy Data from Companies to copy data from specific tables in companies to your respective table in your company. In this blog, I will be sharing my experience in copying data from other companies into my current working company. Pre- requisites : Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central(On-premise / SaaS) Demonstration: 1. Setup Configuration Worksheet: Configuration Worksheet is a page through which you can copy the data from other companies to your working company. You can search on Tell Me to search for Configuration  Worksheet. You can go ahead and add the table for which data you want to copy. For CRONUS, the default Configuration Worksheet looks as per the screenshot below. 2. Run Copy Data from the Company: In the actions, you will have the ability to click on th

Introduction: When dealing with Number Series where the Intercompany Documents are created automatically using the code, using standard number series generation Codeunits cause problems. In this blog, I'll be explaining why this issue is caused and how to resolve such issues. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Business Central  VS Code  AL Language Extension Solution: Issue: Let's say I'm logged in as user of Company B. When I create Sales Order in current company, I need to create Purchase Order in target company say Company A. When I use the Number Series declared on Company B's Purchase and Payable Setup for Purchase Order, the system either gives an error that Number Series does not exist or number generated is out of sync as Number Series are stored on Per Company basis. This results in overlapping of next PO number to be generated. Cause of the Issue: NoSeriesManagement Codeunit 396 works only with the No. Series for the cu

Problem Statement: Well, my client is a Trader of Oils & Fatty Acids and has multiple legal entities to perform various sets of operation on the TRUCK-LOAD(a.k.a. Load). One legal entity creates the Load and schedules it, while another manages with the freight requirements. The information is not shared between both the legal entities. Thus, we need to store the data separately. Pre-requisites: For Microsoft Dynamics NAV: - C/Side Development Environment - Multiple legal entity(Company) setup For Microsoft Dynamics Business Central: - Visual Studio Code - AL Language Extension - Multiple legal entity(Company) setup Solution Design: 1. Create two Tables say LoadCompany1 and LoadCompany2 with same fields 2. Set DataPerCompany property is to TRUE on both the tables. 3. In NAV/ BC, there are common tables but the data into the tables are different. Thus, the system has to manage different version for a single table based on an entity that you're currently working o