Things to Know About Item Charges

The Item Charge functionality in Dynamics NAV gives you the option to include additional costs such as freight, insurance, fuel charges, etc. in the unit cost or unit price of an item transaction. Item Charges are something that most companies that handles any type of inventory would benefit from using. When implementing item charges there are a couple of things to be aware of :


Non-Inventoriable Costs
Item charges can be entered on a purchase invoice or purchase order and applied to an outbound transactions such as a sales shipment or a purchase return order. When doing this you get a non-inventoriable cost as a value entry. This does not create any g/l entries, the only place you see the affect of a non-inventoriable cost is in the statistics of an item and in the ‘Cost Amount (Non-Invtbl.)’ field on the item ledger entries.

Receiving / Shipping Item Charges
Item charges can be entered on a purchase or sales order. When receiving or shipping a line with an item charge you don’t get any transactions at all. There is no expected costs postings for item charges even if you turned this on the in inventory setup. This would have been very nice, but unfortunately it does not work like this. Something to wish for in future releases…

Item Charge Dimensions
Item charges creates value entries related to the item ledger entries of the shipment/receipt that is it applied to. Those value entries (and the related g/l entries) get dimensions according to the dimensions on the document line where the item charge is entered. This sometimes causes issues if you for example have an item charge that is applied towards multiple receipts that contains items with different default dimensions.

Users quite often setup the default dimensions on items with the ‘Value Posting’ equal to ‘Same Code’ because they want to prevent posting with other dimension values on the item. Doing this will also prevent posting the item charges with different dimension values that the one define as default on the items.

The recommended way to handle this is to setup the default dimensions on the items with the ‘Value Posting’ equal to ‘Code Mandatory’ and have a separate dimension values for the item charges, this way the item charges will always post and you can identify/separate them during reporting. Note: if you for example want to report the inventory value by the dimensions defined on the items then you can build your report based on the item ledger entries that contains the correct dimensions from the items and with the values including the item charges.

It would have been nice if the dimensions for the value entries created during posting an item charge would be retrieved from the related item ledger entry, but it does not work like this. Something to wish for in future releases…

Creating a Item with Inventory Value Zero in Navision

Dynamics Navision has an ‘Inventory Value Zero’ field in the item table that is not visible on the page (for some unknown reason).
Adding it to the page allows you to have items with no inventory values, this is useful if you managing inventory on the behalf of someone else or if you want to keep track of material that you have expended (like packaging materials, etc..).

An Item setup like this can be transacted like any other item in Dynamics NAV, except it can not be produced. If you try to enter a production order with an item flagged as ‘Inventory Value Zero’ you will get an error message saying ‘Inventory Value must be equal to ‘No’ in Item No. 'XXXX’ when you refresh the production order.

When purchasing an item  flagged as ‘Inventory Value Zero’ you will not get any inventory related transactions in the G/L, Only the Purchase transaction in the P&L and the AP transaction in the BS.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is now official

Microsoft just released the new name for “Microsoft Dynamics 365 ‘Tenerife'”, where “Tenerife” was just a codename for the next version of “NAV-In-The-Cloud”. And as you might have figured from the title, that name is “Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central”

Generally available beginning April 2nd, Business Central offers businesses a single, end to end solution for managing finances, operations, sales and customer service, and an opportunity to easily upgrade from entry-level accounting software and legacy ERP systems.

Dynamics 365 Business Central will be generally available on April 2, 2018, in 14 countries – United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, and Finland, purchased through Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners.

Australia and New Zealand will be generally available beginning July 1, 2018.

Microsoft has given two interesting links for you to learn more about:

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Roadmap

You can read more about this exciting news on clicking here.

How to Kill Sessions in Dynamics NAV 2013 & above

In the older versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV where the classic client was available you could go to the sessions table and just delete a session to kill it. This was very useful for a number of reasons but it does not work like that anymore in the windows client of version 2013 and above.

Fortunately this feature can easily be replicated by adding an action item to the ribbon on the sessions page in Dynamics NAV.

Here is how you can add a ‘Kill Session’ action item to the sessions page:

Open page 9506 in design mode through the development environment and add a ‘Kill Session’ action item. Something like below.

Then write the following code to the action item.

The above text constant Text50000 just says ‘Kill Session?’.

To make the action item look a bit better you might also want to set the Image and Promotion properties, like below.

That’s it! 🙂

Now when you run the sessions table you can use the new ‘Kill Session’ action item in the ribbon to kill a session. Useful if a session is hanging or has been idle for a while. Also very useful if you start the job queue with a client and you want to stop the background session that is running.

Hope you find above post helpful...

Comment and Uncomment Selection in Navision

One of the small features in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is the ability to comment a selection of code.

Now I am not a huge believer in putting comments in code. Actually I am of the school that think comments are evil, because code should be written so it explains itself. That aside I find the new feature handy when testing and you want to take something out just for a test run.

How does it work?

If you are in the code you can mark a few lines of Code like this


Then click “Comment Seletion…” under the Edit Menu or use the shortcut Shift+Ctrl+K and the marked lines will be commented out by setting 2 forward slashes in front of the code at the left margin.


There is also an “Uncomment Seletion…” with the shortcut Shift+Ctrl+O that will remove the comments again.

Absolutely a help to developers, but please consider how you use comments.

Comments should not be needed in the final version of great code.

List of Release for Dynamics Navision 2016 including Build No. & with localization.

Knowledge Base ID	Title	Release date	Build no.	Local versions included
4052194	Cumulative Update 25 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	November, 2017	49424	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
4045670	Cumulative Update 24 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	October, 2017	49326	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
4040571	Cumulative Update 23 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	September, 2017	49146	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
4037308	Cumulative Update 22 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	August, 2017	48992	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
4034491	Cumulative Update 21 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	July, 2017	48822	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
4024641	Cumulative Update 20 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	June, 2017	48628	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
4021395	Cumulative Update 19 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	May, 2017	48466	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
4018438	Cumulative Update 18 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	April, 2017	48316	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
4014100	Cumulative Update 17 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	March, 2017	48067	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
4011762	Cumulative Update 16 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	February, 2017	47864	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3216191	Cumulative update 15 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	January, 2017	47838	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3209072	Cumulative update 14 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	December, 2016	47444	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3202891	Cumulative update 13 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	November, 2016	47256	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3193868	Cumulative update 12 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	October, 2016	47042	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3188240	Cumulative update 11 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	September, 2016	46773	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3182131	Cumulative update 10 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	August, 2016	46621	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, IN, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3172549	Cumulative update 9 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	July, 2016	46290	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3166287	Cumulative update 8 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	June, 2016	46045	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3157492	Cumulative update 7 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	May, 2016	45834	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3151017	Cumulative update 6 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	April, 2016	45480	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3145855	Cumulative update 5 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	March, 2016	45243	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3139364	Cumulative update 4 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	February, 2016	44974	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3130298	Cumulative update 3 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	January, 2016	44365	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3121038	Cumulative update 2 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	December, 2015	43897	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IS, IT, NA, NL, NO, NZ, RU, SE, UK
3106089	Cumulative Update 1 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016	November, 2015	43402	AT, AU, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI,

Microsoft Navision 2013 and Microsoft Navision 2013 R2 has came to an end.

Today, Cumulative Update 56 for Dynamics NAV 2013 and Cumulative Update 49 for Dynamics NAV 2013R2 has been released. But these will be the last cumulative updates for this two Dynamics NAV versions with just a few platform and application hot fixes.

Why the last time? Well, from January 9th 2018, Microsoft will finish with the mainstream support for these NAV versions. Customers with active service plan can continue to use already released hot fixes and help via Customer Service. But I think that the best idea for all these customers is to upgrade their solution. And not only for owners of these versions. I think that the best solution for all clients is to stay current with new versions all the time.

And just to be precisely, Extended Support will continue with existing until :

January 10th 2023 for Dynamics NAV 2013
January 9th 2023 for Dynamics NAV 2013 R2