From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central/NAV Blogs: Adjust cost entries; Extensions; NAV accuracy; Developer preview
This week on the Dynamics 365 Business Central/NAV blog roundup:
- Prevent inventory adjust cost entries from back dating
- Developing Dynamics 365 Business Central extensions: use code analysis to prevent strange errors.
- Taking NAV accuracy to another dimension: default dimensions and priority
- Developer preview - May 2018 Update
Prevent inventory adjust cost entries from back dating
On his Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant blog, Alex Chow said that every company that uses the inventory module in Dynamics 365 Business Central understands that they must run the adjust cost - item entries process.
He said that when some companies run the adjust cost process, users will report that they experience unwanted entries made to the previous accounting periods.
That's because adjust cost process will always adjust to the date of the original sales transaction unless specified otherwise, according to Chow.
For example, you run the adjust cost process on 6/30/18. However, if you haven't run this process in a while, and a sales transaction occurred on 3/15/18 that has not yet been adjusted, the resulting adjusting entry will be on 3/15/18, Chow said. This will cause problems if you've already closed the books for March.
You can learn how to stop that from happening here.
Developing Dynamics 365 Business Central extensions: use code analysis to prevent strange errors
On the Stefano Demiliani Technical Blog, Demiliani offered the following scenario:
You've developed a great extension for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and tested it on your development sandbox without any problems. Then you try to deploy it to a production environment using the upload extension action ...
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