Items with Multiple Item Unit of Measures in Navision

Items in Microsoft Dynamics NAV can have multiple units of measures, you can for example sell in one unit of measure and purchase in another unit of measure. This is great, but there are some things to be aware of when setting an item up with different unit of measures.
An item must have a base unit of measure. The base unit of measure is how the inventory quantities are displayed and how the inventory is valued. It is also how it is produced (you can have a Production BOM in a different unit of measure, but the Routing and the Production Order will always be in the base unit of measure).

It is considered best practice to have the base unit of measure to be the smallest one, this to avoid having fractions of units leftover due to rounding. Sometimes this is not possible and then it is good to know what is behind the ‘best practice’ to avoid getting into troubles.

Here is an example of how to recreate an issue with different unit of measures:

Let’s say we have an item that we purchase in feet and sell in inch and we setup the base unit of measure to be feet. The items unit of measures will then be setup like this.

 The quantity per base unit for an inch is set to 0.08333 (the base unit must always be 1), this field has a maximum of five decimals so it gets rounded like this (which is part of the problem). One feet equals 12 inch (for all the metric people 🙂).

We now purchase 10 feet which will create the following transaction.

 After this we sell 120 inch (which is the same as 10 feet), this creates the following transaction.

As you can see the 120 inch translates to 9.9996 feet due to the rounding in the items unit of measures. This creates a scenario where we have 0.0004 feet left in inventory which we shouldn’t have.

Setting the items base unit of measure to inch would have prevented this situation (and you can still purchase it in feet). This is why it is always recommended to set the smallest unit of measure as the base unit of measure.

Although, this only happens when there is a rounding involved, knowing this you can say that it is quite safe to setup items with a pair as the base unit of measure and sometimes sell it in pieces or setup an item with meters as the base and sometimes sell it in cm, etc.

The situations that I have seen where it was more or less impossible to set the base unit of measure to the smallest unit was for produced items. In those cases all routings, work instructions, costs, etc. was related to a specific unit of measure and it was not feasible to rearrange the entire production setup just to have the smallest unit of measure be the base.

If a situation like the above already exists then having procedures to adjust the fractions out each month might be appropriate (something like a stock count).

Editing a non-editable field in a table

When a field on a table is set to Editable = No, the field is not editable in the RTC.
So if you want the field editable, you would need to change the table and the field becomes editable.

It seems there is a workaround for this. Other than using a CodeUnit to update there is an alternative method as well.

If you look at a page field, you will see that the field has an editable property defaulting to <False>.
When you change the property to True explicitly, you can actually edit the field on the page, even though the table has the editable property as No.

Here is one of the blog posts that describes this in detail.

http://mibuso.com/blogs/kriki/2011/05/09/edit-a-non-editable-field/

Import Excel File in Navision using Excel Buffer

 The post is to import the data in a table From an Excel File.

Most of us know this feature is there in standard objects of Microsoft Dynamics NAV from a long time.
If you are one of those who don't know about it please go through the article.

Let`s say i have a table with following fields as shown below -

And the Excel file that i want to import as shown below -

The Target is to import the data from excel in the Navision Table.

I have Created a Page to view imported entries and on the same page there is an action of Import From Excel.
For Importing data from Excel we will be using Standard ReadSheet Function in Excel Buffer Table in a Report. The Report will be Processing Only and will have options to Add the Entries or Replace the Entries.

Below is the code that have been used to achieve desired result -

First the Report Checks the option that user selected in Request Page of Replacing Entries or Adding Entries.
Then using Standard Function of Excel Buffer the Excel File Selected by User is Opened.
Then Using ReadSheet Function Excel Buffer Reads the Data in Selected Excel File.
Then System using a function try to get No. of Rows and Column in Selected Excel Sheet.
As First Row in Our Case Contain Caption, so it start inserting data in table from Row No 2 To Last Row.

What system does in Function GetLastRowandColumns -

What system Does in Function Insert Data -

System read the data in a row and assign it to actual table fields.

To Open Excel File and Sheet Selection Code on Request Page is -

Now let's try to execute the process from the Page -

Select Import From Excel and Select Option to Add / Replace Entries. Once Clicked Ok System will ask for the Excel File to Import, as shown below -

Once File is selected and Excel File have multiple sheets, System will prompt to select the sheet also.

If everything goes well a confirmation message will appear and the data will be updated as shown below.

Hope you find above post helpful.

For Objects used in this post please download same from my Google Drive.
Click Here to Download - Prateek.ExcelImport#NAV

OLE or Automation Error: "F9043C85-F6F2-101A-A3C9-08002B2F49FB" not found

How to Resolve OLE or Automation Error

How many times do you got an error when we are trying to do a Data Migration here's the message below:

Could not create an instance of the OLE control or Automation server identified by 

GUID-{F9043C85-F6F2-101A-A3C9-08002B2F49FB}. 

Check that the OLE control or Automation server is correctly installed and registered.

What this message is trying to tell you is that something has not been installed correctly on this client

That something is a file which is not Register with the Client i.e. "comdlg32.ocx".

The error you have {F9043C85-F6F2-101A-A3C9-08002B2F49FB} refers to the GUID for 

Microsoft Common Dialog Control, v6.0. It is typically placed here in the below given folders : 

'C:\WINDOWS\System32\comdlg32.ocx' and C:\Windows\SysWOW64\comdlg32.ocx'


Solution :

Step 1 :- Download the OCX file from the given link below 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B39tCHSFl7BLZFUtbHIzVnJPN0U/view?usp=sharing

Step 2 :- Copy File to both Folders :-
               C:\Windows\System32
               C:\Windows\SysWOW64 

Step 3 :- Go to Start and type in CMD in the search space.
               [IMPORTANT] Right click CMD and click "Run as administrator".

Step 4 :- Copy and Paste the below given command on CMD & press Enter to Run it
               (the following depending on sysWOW 64 or System32).

First Command :
               regsvr32 c:\Windows\system32\comdlg32.ocx

After pressing Enter you will get below Confirmation Message.  
        



Now Second Command :
                regsvr32 c:\Windows\SysWOW64\comdlg32.ocx



After pressing Enter you will get below Confirmation Message.  




Hopefully Error will be Resolved after Registering above OCX file.

Note :- Usually you will also get an error if you try to compile Codeunit 412...

Hope it helps :-)

How to Convert Every First letter of a Field into Uppercase by Default

If a Name is entered  into Name Field in Customer Card like for example "prateek gupta" it should automatically convert into "Prateek Gupta"

Global Variables :

Name              Data Type          Length

Indx                 Integer                            

NewValue         Text                     20

Cap                  Boolean

##Code on Trigger : OnValidate (on a Table Field that you wish to apply this code on)

How to Convert First Letter Capital in NAV Field

This will capitalize your first letter and lowercase the rest.

If varName is your variable

## Code :

newval := UPPERCASE(COPYSTR(varName,1,1)) + LOWERCASE(COPYSTR(varName,2));

##Output :

If the Input is "prateek Gupta"

then Output will be "Prateek gupta"

Method 'PageXXXX.a60Action1102601028a62_a45_OnAction' not found

How many of you have faced this issue when 

you click on statistics or Release button ?

Method 'Page9304.a60Action1102601028a62_a45_OnAction' not found

##On sales return order page when you click on Statistics button system will give you below error.

STEPS TO ORIGINATE ISSUE :

Steps to Follow are given below

•    <Step #1: > Open Navision RTC 2013 R2

•    <Step #2: > Open Sales Return Order

•    <Step #3: > Generate New Sales Return Order by filling all the required Fields in header and line.

•    <Step #4: > Click on  Statistics Action Button, you get the error

RESOLUTION :

This happens because action button and method is not linked properly.

To fix this issue design the “Page ID – 6630” and then go to page actions.

Change Old Action Name “Statistics” to “<Action1102601028>”.

Important Note: - Now to know in which Page ID What Action Name is to be given to a particular Action Button.

Read the Error Message Carefully : - (See the Yellow color highlighted first  is Page ID & Second is Action Name)

[Method '    Page9304     .a60     Action1102601028    a62_a45_OnAction' not found.]

Well rename the Name to the action with <Action> and the issue is solved.