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How can we Correct Dimension in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central?

September 14, 2021 Ashwini Tripathi

You can do correction by reversing the journal or creating a credit memo for the document, which will be time consuming and can attract to even more errors.

Now you can correct dimensions for general ledger (G/L) entries to ensure your financial reports is providing you with accurate insights. For G/L entries, you can now

change the dimension values
add new dimensions
remove wrong ones

You can also trace a history of the corrections that you have done and can undo corrections in case you had made a mistake in the corrections itself.

Before you continue let me remind you:

Although the Dimension Correction feature only updates general ledger entries, still it can be helpful in many cases with creating accurate financial reports.

You must decide when to use the corrections because when you perform correction, it will result in differences between the dimensions in finance and sub-ledgers. The earlier you decide on what corrections to use, the less manual corrections you’ll need to do in the future.

I am using BC18 Demo database.

How to run the Dimension Correction

General Ledger Entries. You can change the dimensions for single or multiple entries just by selecting the entries.

G/L Register. You can change the dimension per batch posting. By using “From Entry No.”, “To Entry No.” as a filter for General Ledger Entries.

Posted General Journal. You can use “Document No.” and “Posting Date” as filters for General Ledger Entries.

Search for Dimension Corrections Page.

Draft Dimension Correction Screen:

Depending upon from where you Launched the Dimension Correction, it may come with pre-filled or as blank screen.

You have several options to work with dimensions:

You can Add New Dimensions
You can Remove existing Dimensions
You can Change the existing Dimensions

For Selecting Entries to which above changes applies you have different options to work with.

Add related entries. This requires at least 1 G/L Entry already to be selected, and then it adds all other G/L Entries with the same “Transaction No”.
Select Manually. You can manually select in the G/L Entries by just choosing them.
Add by Filter. Here you have all freedom of choice, how to filter your G/L Entries for the dimension corrections.
Add by Dimension. This can be useful if you want to change the dimension value Sales to Admin for all G/L entries. So, you find all G/L Entries with the Dimension Sales.

You can omit/remove selected entries, or change selection criteria for your entries to be applied with changes.

Updating Dimension Values

Above we create a Dimension Correction, the Status is initially DRAFT, it means the G/L Entries Dimension is NOT yet updated.

Once you are done in the Dimension change to move forward you have two option to go thru:

Click the Validate dimension change then click RUN.

Click RUN.

Validate change

This will check if it’s possible to make the dimension changes you specified.

Check Dimension Correction Setup.
Check Dimension Combinations.

Once the validation run successfully you can see it in the Validation status.

You can choose to run the job immediately or schedule in case you are operating on larger data set.

Next you can now use the Run action button. This will Apply changes to the General Ledger Entry Dimensions.

How to trace the correction

General Ledger Entries. You can see all the dimension corrections that you’ve done for the selected entries.

Search the Dimension Corrections. You can see all the Dimension corrections that you’ve done even the ongoing dimension corrections will be listed here.

Undo a Correction

In the dimension correction page just click the UNDO. This will be executed as a Job. The user will have to choose, how he wants to apply changes: running the job immediately or schedule it.

It is recommended to run the schedule if you are working with larger data set, to avoid the table locking during posting of other transactions.

Once the Job execution completes, you will see the status change to UNDO COMPLETED.

How to Update the Analysis Views

From the Dimension Correction page, you can also update you’re Analysis Views by clicking the Update Analysis Views button. This will be executed as a Job. You will have to choose, how you want to apply changes: running the job immediately or schedule it.

It is recommended to run the schedule if you are working with larger dataset, to avoid the table locking during posting of other transactions.

Hope you enjoyed the information. Will come with more similar information in my next posts. Till then keep exploring, learning and sharing your knowledge with others.

Remain safe, take care of your loved ones, put your mask, maintain safe distance and don’t forget to get vaccinated.

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Modify, Assign and Process Email for Word Forms in Navision 2016

October 13, 2015October 13, 2015 Ashwini Tripathi

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 offers new functionality with Microsoft Word forms and emailing documents for Customers and Vendors. You can now modify the customer statement report and the vendor remittance report using Microsoft Word. You can also select a specific report format by customer to ease the statement process.

To make this functionality work for you, you need to make sure you have setup the SMTP Mail Setup. You can see my earlier post OFFICE 365 INTEGRATION IN NAV 2015 – Exchange Online this is still valid for Navision 2016.

Recall from my earlier posts, how to work with Word Layouts which I have written for 2015 but those are still valid for 2016 links as below.

Word Document Reports and Custom Layouts

Using Report Selector to run Report

Managing Report Layouts

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016, Microsoft have extended the functionality for Word forms and Email beyond the Sales documents. We now have default Microsoft Word forms for Customer Statements and the Vendor Remittance report.

You can now modify the Word form to meet your needs, assign a custom Word layout to a specified customer or vendor and print or email based on those customer specific selections.

In the Report Layout selection, there is a new report object for the Customer Statement with a default Word report created.

The Mini Statement report (1316) is based on the existing RDLC customer statement but includes a Word report with the same information. You can use Managing Report Layouts to know more details regarding customizing the Layouts.

In Report Selection – Sales, you can set the Customer Statement to use the new report, Mini-Statement – 1316.

Now your system is setup to use the specified layout for all customers and the statement itself is going to use the new report.

Now that Microsoft Dynamics NAV is setup to use the new report, you can assign a specific report by customer. This will enable you to have multiple formats processed at the same time.

We assigned a custom layout to the customer in the customer card.

Here you set your selection by document type, for example, the sales quote or the customer statement.

You can also enter an email address for the document. So, if the statement goes to your customer’s accounts receivable clerk and the sales quote is sent to the sales manager, you define this information in the Document Layouts page.

The system uses the custom layout when you print the documents instead of emailing them.

Enter multiple email addresses with a semi-colon to separate them.

You can do this for all customers.

When statements are processed, the report layout used is the one assigned to the customer. If the customer has no custom layouts assigned, the custom layout assigned in the Report Layout Selection is used.

If you go to Customer Statements, you can see that that Output Options are available. This will let you select how you wish to use the document layout settings.

A checkbox will appear allowing you to print remaining statements. If you mark this checkbox, any statements with an email address in Customer Document Layouts is emailed, and any statements with a custom report layout but no email address will print with that report layout and any customers without any document layout settings will use the company default report from Report Layout Selections.

I will come up with more details in my upcoming posts.

Report

Designing Report Layouts from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment

July 2, 2015July 2, 2015 Ashwini Tripathi

After you have created a dataset for a report, you design the report layout. The report layout determines how the report looks when it is viewed, printed, and saved from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV client. The report layout specifies which fields of the dataset are included in the report and how they are arranged, the format of text that appears on the report (such as font type and color), margins, background images, and more.

You generally display most data in the body of a report, and you use the header to display information before any dataset fields are displayed. For example, you can display a report title, company, and user information in the header of a report.

Report Layout Types

There are two types of report layouts: Word and Client Report Language Definition (RDLC). Word report layouts are based on a Word document (.docx file type) and are created and modified by using Word 2013. RDLC report layouts are .rdlc or .rdl file types that are created and modified by using Visual Studio 2013 or SQL Server Report Builder 3.0.

Built-in and Custom Report Layouts

In the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment, you can create both an RDLC report layout and Word report layout on a report. These layouts are referred to as built-in layouts because they are part of the report object in the database. This means, for example, if you export the report object as a .fob or .txt file, the RDLC report layout and Word report layout are included. A report can only have one built-in RDLC report layout and one built-in Word report layout. By default, the built-in RDLC report layout is used when the report is run in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV client unless there is only a built-in Word report layout, in which case, the built-in Word report layout is used.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV users can specify whether to use the built-in RDLC or Word report layout on a report from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client and Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web client. From the client, users can also create custom report layouts that are based on the built-in report layouts. This enables users to have several different layouts for the same report which they can switch among. Custom report layouts are managed from page 9650 Report Layouts in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV client. Unlike built-in report layouts, which are part of the report object, custom report layouts are stored in table 9650 Report Layouts of the database.

Report Layouts in a Multitenant Deployment

In a multitenant Microsoft Dynamics NAV deployment, the built-in report layouts are stored in the application database because they are part of the report objects. Therefore, built-in report layouts are available to all tenants. Custom report layouts are stored in the business data database; therefore they are specific to the tenant. This enables you to create separate report layouts for each tenant.