3,000 Articles on azurecurve | Ramblings of an IT Professional

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business CentralI realised over the weekend that in the almost 12 years that I have been running this site, I have just surpassed 3,000 published articles. Originally the site had the tagline Ramblings of a Dynamics GP Consultant as Microsoft Dynamics GP was the main topic on which I wrote and, by a large amount, is still the topic of the vast majority of the articles.

I changed the tagline a while ago as I was also writing about a number of other topics, including ClassicPress which I regard as one of my main topics; most of those articles are either about developing for ClassicPress, or the ClassicPress plugins I have developed and released.

My third, and newest, main topic, is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central which I started working with last year, when I stopped working with Dynamics GP.

Only looking at the three main topics, this is how many articles I have written about each one:

I have no plans to stop writing for this site on any of the subjects above, or any of the others I write about, although the articles for Dynamics GP are now mainly a dump of the scripts I have written over the last 19 years so will come to an end when I have finished posting them.

SQL Scripts for Microsoft Dynamics GP: Get Alpha Characters from an Alphanumeric String

Microsoft Dynamics GPThis script is part of the SQL Scripts for Microsoft Dynamics GP where I will be posted the scripts I wrote against Microsoft Dynamics GP over the 19 years before I stopped working with Dynamics GP.

This script will return all of the alpha characters from a string; if you have a string of TEMP0001A it will return TEMPA.

-- drop FUNCTION if it exists
IF OBJECT_ID (N'uf_AZRCRV_GetAlpha', N'FN') IS NOT NULL
    DROP FUNCTION uf_AZRCRV_GetAlpha
GO
--CREATE FUNCTION
CREATE FUNCTION uf_AZRCRV_GetAlpha(@string NVARCHAR(100))
/*
Created by Ian Grieve of azurecurve | Ramblings of an IT Professional (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). */
RETURNS NVARCHAR(100) BEGIN RETURN ( SELECT CAST( ( SELECT CASE WHEN SUBSTRING(@string, n, 1) LIKE '[^0-9]' THEN SUBSTRING(@string, n, 1) ELSE '' END FROM ( SELECT number FROM master..spt_values WHERE type = 'P' AND number BETWEEN 1 AND 100 ) AS Nums(n) WHERE n <= LEN(@string) FOR XML PATH('') ) AS NVARCHAR(100) ) ); END GO GRANT EXECUTE ON uf_AZRCRV_GetAlpha TO DYNGRP GO

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SQL Scripts for Microsoft Dynamics GP
Verify PM Batches Exist
Update Accrued Purchases Distribution on History Receipts from Posting Account Setup
Insert Mfg BOMs from Text File
SQL Function To Return Approver
List of Active Fixed Assets
Insert Manufacturing Routings from Text File
Table Function to Split String on Delimiter
List of Open Payables Transactions
Insert Creditor Item Numbers
Return Top Level BOM for Manufacturing Orders
Custom Purchase Order Email Notification to Originator on Workflow Final Approval
list of Open Payables Distributions
Set New Vendor On Hold if EFT Exists
Set New Vendor On Hold if EFT Exists
Payment Run Apply Query
List GL Transactions
Simple RMA Audit
Change Vendor Change Approvals Joins and Fields
Insert National Accounts from CSV
List GL Accounts With Notes
Import Site Bins From CSV
Remove Multicurrency from Sales Transactions
Change Email Notification Assignment
List General Ledger Transactions (Excluding Year End Journals)
List Taxes Linked to GL Accounts
Allow Workflow Originator to be an Approver
Add Joins and Fields to PM Document Approval Notification Emails
Update Accounts and Distributions on Work Status Sales Transactions from Item Card, Tax Details or Posting Account Setup
Upload and Verify Tax Commodity Codes
Delete Corrupt Extended Pricing Data
Assign All Items to All Site Bins
Sales Transactions (Work) Against a Specific Site
Change Web Service URi
SQL View to Return Quantity Available
Verify Tax Detail Assigned to Vendor
Insert Extended Pricing Price Sheet Header
Prefix Companies Names with System Designator
SQL View to Return Category Linked to Segment 3 in COA
Update Site Descriptions From CSV
Copy Workflow from Source to Destination Database
Extract GL Period Balances
Sales by Customer By Year
Purchased Items With Serial Numbers and Linked Sales Transactions
SQL View to Return Purchase Orders
Select All Primary Keys and Generate ALTER Script
Copy Workflow Calendar from Source to Destination Database
SQL Trigger on PO invoice Insert to Change GL posted Date
Sales by Salesperson By Year
Script to Set Transactions as Included on VAT Daybook Return
SQL Script to Return PO Receipts
Insert Extended Pricing Price Sheet UofM Work
View for Payables Transactions Extract
Export Open/History PM Transactions After a Specified Date
Copy Email Messages from a Source to Destination Database
PO Receipt History View
Insert Extended Pricing Price Sheet Assignments
Extract Payables Transactions from All Companies
List Open Purchase Orders
SQL View to Create Division Tree for Management Reporter
Select Chart of Accounts
Activate Horizontal Scroll Bars for All Existing Users
Workflow Assignment Review
Update Item Replenishment Method for Manufacturing
Get Alpha Characters from an Alphanumeric String
Set Vendor On Hold If EFT Details Changed
List Open Purchase Order Lines
SQL View to Create Division, including UDF 3 and 4, Tree for Management Reporter
Delete Orphaned Vendor EFT Details
Sales Invoice Query
Round Extended Pricing Price Sheet Item Value
Get Numeric Characters from an Alphanumeric String
Trigger to Activate Horizontal Scroll Bars for New Users
View to Return List of Payments and Linked Invoices
Select Duplicate Extended Pricing Price Sheet Work Records
RM Aged Debt Report
Select Next Temporary Creditor ID
Select a List of Vendor Addresses
Set Vendor On Hold When Created
Assembly Transaction Quantities Required
Generate Standard Cost Update Macro from Text File Import
Check for Corrupt Extended Pricing Records
Sales Line Items
Compare Ship To Address on Work Sales Trx Against Customer
SQL View to Return PO Commitment Detail
List Bank Accounts with Linked GL Accounts
Validate and Insert/Update Vendor Emails from a Text File
Return Items with Incorrect Quantities
Set Account Categories To User-Defined Field 2
Check Posting Type for Account (Segment 2)/Account Category Combinations
Update Ship To Name on Work Sales Transactions to Match the Customer Name
List Tax Detail Transactions
Select Tax Details and Related G/L Accounts
Update Account Description by Adding 3rd Segment Description
Update Segment Descriptions from Other Database
Return Opening Balance for Period of Supplied Date
Update Min Order Qty and Average Lead Time on Vendor Item From Text File
List of PM Invoices for Vendors with POs
Select Debit, Credit and Net Change for All Accounts in Date Range
Select All Pending Prepayments
Available Stock for All Items
Item Report
Migrate Vendor Emails from Active Docs to Standard Email Fields
Update Mfg Cost Accounts from Mfg Item Class Setup
PO Commitment Detail
Update Inventory Accounts from Item Class
Create Macro to Delete Items
Update Accounts Payable Distribution on Work Status PM Transactions from Posting Account Setup
Update Item Resource Planning on Item Quantity Master from Text File
SQL View to Return List of Posted Vendor Document Numbers
Update Inventory Distribution on Work Status Purchase Orders from the Item Card
Update Item Engineering File from a Text File
List of Exchange Rates

In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Financial), how do I… Understand G/L Account Categories and Subcategories

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business CentralThis post is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Financial), how do I… series and of the wider In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

One of the things I find somewhat unusual with Dynamics BC is that the setup of the chart of accounts, and some related information, isn’t just setup data but is also used to organise and present data. As we saw in the article on the chart of accounts, that list showed the Net Change and Balance of the accounts as well as some of the setup fields. The G/L Account Categories list is no different:

G/L Account Categories list in Cronus USA, Inc.

The above screenshot shows the G/L Account Categories list in the Cronus USA, Inc sample company; you can find this by clicking the Tell me what you want to do search button in the top right and type acc cat and select the G/L Account Categories. The list shows not only the categories, which I would expect to see, and the subcategories, but also the G/L Accounts included in the categories and the balance of those G/L Accounts.

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