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Using Extended Texts In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: What are Extended Texts?

Friday 18th Oct 2024Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Ian Grieve3 minute read0 comment

This article is part of the Using Extended Texts In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central series, but articles within it will also be part of the larger ongoing In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Extended Texts can be used to add additional description or text to items, stock-keeping units, general ledger accounts and resources in Business Central.

All of these types of data allow descriptions to be added, but are typically limited to a maximum of one or two hundred characters. Sometimes, however, a longer description is required, and extended texts is how Business Central allows you to manage these extended descriptions.

Multiple extended texts of unlimited number of lines, although each line is limited to 100 characters, on a record are supported and they can be limited by a start and end date for when they are available; they can also be limited to the type of purchase or sales transaction to which they can be added.

In subsequent posts of this series, I will show how extended texts can be added to records as well as used on transactions in the purchasing and sales modules.

Using Extended Texts In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
What are Extended Texts?
Add Extended Texts to Items
Add Extended Texts to Stockkeepping Units
Enable Item Extended Texts to be Added to Transactions Automatically
Create a Purchasing Transaction with Manually Added Extended Texts
Create a Sales Transaction with Manually Added Extended Texts

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Using Extended Texts In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Add Extended Texts to Items
Using Extended Texts In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Add Extended Texts to Stockkeepping Units
Using Extended Texts In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Enable Item Extended Texts to be Added to Transactions Automatically
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Using Extended Texts In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Series Index

Wednesday 16th Oct 2024Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Ian Grieve2 minute read0 comment

Extended Texts are available for use in several modules of Business Central (including inventory, purchasing and sales) so thought I’d create a small sub-series to group them together as well as including them in the larger In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (???), how do I…[/i] series I have in progress.

This is the series index for the Using Extended Texts In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central related posts I will be writing. The series index, below, will automatically update as each article in the series goes live.

Using Extended Texts In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
What are Extended Texts?
Add Extended Texts to Items
Add Extended Texts to Stockkeepping Units
Enable Item Extended Texts to be Added to Transactions Automatically
Create a Purchasing Transaction with Manually Added Extended Texts
Create a Sales Transaction with Manually Added Extended Texts

Error Configuring Master Data Management in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Monday 14th Oct 2024Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Ian Grieve3 minute read0 comment

One of the pieces of new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 is Master Data Management which allows you to sync setup and/or master data between companies in the same environment.

We’ve made some use of his functionality on a recent project, but encountered a problem when trying to enable it for the tables and fields we had selected:

You do not have permissions to create or run scheduled tasks

We looked into the issue and identified it as being that I had a partner licence for the clients system and creation and running of job queues is not permitted for this type of licence. The “workaround” is to either have an account on the client system created for the duration of the project and assign it a full Business Central Essentials licence or to have someone from the client do anything which requires a job queue.

Neither of these options is especially useful, but it is a result of a restriction put in place by Microsoft. I’m not sure why the restriction is in place, but it is a very inconvenient one.

Location Error Entering an Assembly Order in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Thursday 10th Oct 2024Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Ian Grieve1 minute read0 comment

While working with a client to help them implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central they reported an error to me when trying to process an assembly order in the Assembly Orders (902) page. When they entered the details of the assembly and clicked post, they received an error message:

Error dialog when trying to post an assembly order

Location Code must have a value in Item Journal: Journal Template Name=, Journal Batch Name=, Line No.=0. It cannot be zero or empty.

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Error Importing Sales Invoice into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Using a Configuration Package: “Attempted to divide by zero”

Tuesday 8th Oct 2024Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Ian Grieve2 minute read0 comment

I was working on a client project recently to help them implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. We encountered an error when using a configuration package to import the customers opening balances as sales invoices.

I haven’t yet covered configuration packages in my In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series, but should be doing so fairly soon. Configuration Packages, formerly known as RapidStart, is a tool which allows you to import (or export) data to Business Central from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

We had created a configuration package to update the Gen. Journal Line (81) table which holds the sales journals, selected the fields to import, populated the sheet and run the import, but when we validated the file we were presented with three errors:

Config. Package Errors - Gen. Journal Line

Attempted to divide by zero

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In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate Actions), how do I… Use the “Update an Image, File or Document V3” Action

Thursday 3rd Oct 2024Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Ian Grieve3 minute read0 comment

This article is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate Actions), how do I… series, a sub-series of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate), 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.

There are a number of actions available in Power Automate for Business Central which allow specific actions against the data of Business Central to be performed from within Power Automate.

The 12th action which is available is the Update an image, file or document (V3) one which allows you to update (but not insert) an image, file or document in Business Central. To insert a new image, file or document, you will need to use the Create record V3 action to create the file first and the use this update action to upload the actual image, file or document.

Within a flow, click the add action button; search for Business Central and select the Business Central icon (make sure you select the SaaS one, which is a dark colour instead of the on-premises one which is mainly white):

Choose an action dialog with Business Central in the search results

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In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate Actions), how do I… Use the “Get an Image, File or Document V3” Action

Tuesday 1st Oct 2024Thursday 26th Sep 2024 Ian Grieve3 minute read0 comment

There are a number of actions available in Power Automate for Business Central which allow specific actions against the data of Business Central to be performed from within Power Automate.

The 11th action which is available is the Get an image, file or document (V3) one which allows you to extract an mage, file or document from Business Central. This could be useful for things like extracting PDFs of invoices to OneDrive or SharePoint.

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In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate Actions), how do I… Use the “Get Adaptive Card V3” Action

Friday 27th Sep 2024Tuesday 17th Sep 2024 Ian Grieve3 minute read0 comment

There are a number of actions available in Power Automate for Business Central which allow specific actions against the data of Business Central to be performed from within Power Automate.

The 10th action which is available is the Get adaptive card (V3) one which allows you to create an adaptive card which you can use in Teams or elsewhere. This is a new action, introduced in the 2-23 Wave 1 release.

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In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate Actions), how do I… Use the “Run Action V3” Action

Thursday 26th Sep 2024Thursday 26th Sep 2024 Ian Grieve3 minute read0 comment

There are a number of actions available in Power Automate for Business Central which allow specific actions against the data of Business Central to be performed from within Power Automate.

The 9th action which is available is the Run action (V3) one which allows you to run actions against records in Business Central, including posting journals, receiving and invoicing purchase orders, posting sales invoices and more.

Continue reading “In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate Actions), how do I… Use the “Run Action V3” Action”

In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate Actions), how do I… Use the “List Companies V3” Action

Wednesday 25th Sep 2024Tuesday 17th Sep 2024 Ian Grieve2 minute read0 comment

There are a number of actions available in Power Automate for Business Central which allow specific actions against the data of Business Central to be performed from within Power Automate.

The 8th action which is available is the List companies (V3) one which was only made available in the 2023 Wave 2 release and allows you to get all companies in a given environment.

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