This came up a few days ago at a client site during an upgrade being done by a colleague and then again when I was running a training session.
When I was doing the training I was explaining what a Temporary Creditor (or Vendor for the American readers) was and why I hated them so much. As I was talking I was showing that even through the temporary creditor itself had been deleted, the history for it remained.
It was when I tried to open the Payables Transactions navigation list that I got the below error:
Microsoft Dynamics GP
[Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]Cannot insert the value NULL into 'VENDNAME', table 'tempdb.dbo.##181163', column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.[Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11][SQL Server]Cannot insert the value
After clicking OK, the navigation lists display, but only with a very small number of transactions listed when there should have been far more:
I created another creditor with the same ID, and the navigation list loaded correctly.
If you see this error have a look for transactions which are not correctly linked to a record in PM Creditor MSTR (PM00200); you will then need to create a creditor with the same Creditor ID and set it to Inactive.
From a discussion with Microsoft, this is a known issue currently under investigation so hopefully a fix will be forthcoming.
How do you “look for transactions which are not correctly linked to a record in PM Creditor MSTR (PM00200)”?
Hi BBESS,
I’ve just written the below script and tested in the Fabrikam sample company:
CREATE VIEW uv_AZRCRV_GetMissingVendors AS /* Created by Ian Grieve of azurecurve|Ramblings of a Dynamics GP Consultant (http://www.azurecurve.co.uk) This code is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Int). */ SELECT ['Vendors'].* FROM ( SELECT ['PM Key Master File'].VENDORID FROM PM00400 AS ['PM Key Master File'] WITH (NOLOCK) UNION SELECT ['PM Transaction WORK File'].VENDORID FROM PM10000 AS ['PM Transaction WORK File'] WITH (NOLOCK) UNION SELECT ['PM Transaction OPEN File'].VENDORID FROM PM20000 AS ['PM Transaction OPEN File'] WITH (NOLOCK) UNION SELECT ['PM Paid Transaction History File'].VENDORID FROM PM30200 AS ['PM Paid Transaction History File'] WITH (NOLOCK) ) AS ['Vendors'] LEFT JOIN PM00200 AS ['PM Vendor Master File'] WITH (NOLOCK) ON ['Vendors'].VENDORID = ['PM Vendor Master File'].VENDORID WHERE ['PM Vendor Master File'].VENDORID IS NULL GO GRANT SELECT ON uv_AZRCRV_GetMissingVendors TO DYNGRP GO