Similar as purchasing, when we want to post item sale, we can do it in one step (posting shipment and invoice in the same time) or in two steps (posting shipment in the first step, and then posting invoice). You can also use some additional ways with Warehouse Management, but the G/L entries will be the same.
In my example, I have used second way with line and invoice discounts, for better example.
But, in any case as in purchase model, we have some rules about posting groups. Some posting groups are used from document header, and other from document line. In following chart, you can see how system uses posting groups on documents.
When we finish posting of shipment, we will get only two entries in G/L Ledger. These are only entries about inventory:
When we post invoice related with posted shipment, we will get more entries in G/L Entries. You can find completely description of them in next table:
Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Posting Groups #1 – Item Purchase Posting
When we want to post item purchase, we can do it in one step (posting receipt and invoice in the same time) or in two steps (posting receipt in the first step, and then posting invoice). In my example, I have used second example. In my example, I also use line and invoice discounts, for better example.
But, in any case, we have some rules about posting groups. Some posting groups are used from document header, and other from document line. In following chart, you can see how system uses posting groups on documents.
When we finish posting of receipt, we will get only two entries in G/L Ledger. These are only entries about inventory:
When we post invoice related with posted receipt, we will get more entries in G/L Entries. You can find completely description of them in next table:
Using of Posting Groups – Table of Content
Posting groups in Microsoft Dynamics NAV are very important part of configuration process. All G/L Entries depends of correctly configured posting groups. We can find a lot of them: General Business and Product Posting Groups, VAT Business and Product Posting Groups, Customer and Vendor Posting Groups, Inventory Posting Groups…
Sometime, it is very confusing how it works, especially for unexperienced people. Because of that, I will prepare small school of using of posting groups. In following posts, I will prepare a lot of examples to be clear what we get.
This post will be updated with TOC of all regarding posts to have everything on one place.
A) Purchase & Sales
A3) Item Charges Purchase Posting
A4) Item Sale Posting with Payment Method
A5) Item Returns Posting (Sales & Purchase)
A6) Finance Charge Memos and Reminders with Fees
A8) Payment Posting with same and different currencies
A9) Payment Discounts and Tolerances
A11) Deferrals in Sales
B) Inventory Management
B1) Adjust Cost – Item Entries Posting
B2) Change Standard Cost (using Revaluation)
B4) Assembly Orders
C) Production Management
C1) Manufacturing Posting (FIFO & Average)
C2) Manufacturing Posting (Standard Cost Type)
D) Fixed Assets
D1) FA Purchase Posting (Acquisition and Maintenance)
D3) FA Reclassification Journal Posting
D4) FA Sales Posting
D5) FA Sales Credit Memo Posting
D6) FA Write-Down and Appreciation Posting
E) Jobs
E1) Item Purchase for Job Posting
E4) Job WIP Posting (part 3) – Cost Value WIP Method
F) Service Management
NAV Conferences in 2015
Microsoft published Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 last year in October and we expect new release again in October this year. That means, we will have a lot of very interesting conferences this year.
Convergence 2015 in Atlanta has finished in March and we have few of them currently in April, but we have yet to see the most interesting sessions to the in the second part of this year.
This is calendar of all Microsoft Dynamics NAV conferences to the end of year. See you on some of them. If you have some additional information, please send me comment.
- April
- October
- Directions EMEA, Mannheim, Germany (05.10.-07.10.)
- NAVUG Summit, Reno-Tahoe, US (13.10.-16.10.)
- Directions, Orlando, US (25.10.-28.10.)
- November/December
- NAV TechDays, Antwerp, Belgium (19.11.-20.11.)
- Convergence EMEA, Barcelona, Spain (30.11.-03.12.)
New Cumulative Update 6 for NAV 2015 has been released
Cumulative Update 6 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 has been released today, few hours ago. It includes the most of application area (Finance, Inventory, Jobs, Manufacturing, Marketing, Purchase, Sales, Service and Warehouse) and very useful platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015.
It also has a lot application hotfixes for following localizations: Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Spanish, Italy, North America, Netherlands, Norway, Russia and UK. There are also some new local regulatory features for Germany, Italy, Russia and UK.
You can download Cumulative Update 6 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 from here. This CU is named as Build 40459.
In the same time, Microsoft has already published Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (CU 25; Build 40468) and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 (CU 18; Build 40452).
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Feature Comparison Tool
Microsoft has recently published new Feature Comparison Tool. Before the newest release, we could compare up to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2. Now we can make a comparison from NAV 4.0 to NAV 2015.
You can select only your current version to see existed features. Also, you can see all features of your future versions. Or you can make compare all versions on the same place to see what you are missing.
You can try it on the following link.
New Cumulative Update 5 for NAV 2015 has been released
Cumulative Update 5 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 has been released today. It includes almost all application (Administration, Client, Finance, Inventory, Jobs, Manufacturing, Marketing, Purchase, Sales, Server, Service and VAT/Sales Tax/Intrastat) and very useful platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015. It also has a lot hotfixes for following localizations: Australia, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spanish, Italy, France, North America, Netherlands, Norway and Russia.
You can download Cumulative Update 5 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 from here. This CU is named as Build 40262.
Few days ago, Microsoft has already published Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (CU 24; Build 40118) and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 (CU 17; Build 40076).
Microsoft Dynamics NAV in statistic – 2015
Last year, I wrote about number of Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementation on my blog. On last Convergence we got information that NAV has 102.000 customers with 8.000 customer adds in this year.
Now, we have new information for the last year. Microsoft Dynamics NAV has 8.000 customer adds again. This mean, Microsoft Dynamics NAV is the most popular ERP solution on the world with 110.000 customers all around the world. NAV is also Microsoft Dynamics solution with the best growth in year.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV increases its participation in Microsoft Dynamics family from 46% to the 48%.
People still trust and like NAV globally. The last version was really excellent and we can expect more and more in following version.
PowerShell & NAV on MSDN Blog
In last few months, Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team Blog publishing excellent articles about using Windows PowerShell with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. I have collected all of them on one ToC. Read, learn and enjoy:
- Coffee Break 1: Add AD users to NAV
- Coffee Break 2: Automate a Microsoft Dynamics NAV deployment
- Coffee Break 3: PowerShell Remoting with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
- Coffee Break 4: Piping in Windows PowerShell
- Coffee Break 5: Searching through a Dynamics NAV text file
- Coffee Break 6: Return to piping
- Coffee Break 7: Creating and Using Windows PowerShell profiles
- Coffee Break 8: Windows PowerShell Remoting (On-Premises)
- Coffee Break 9: Windows PowerShell and Creating a Hyper-V Disk
- Coffee Break 10: Provisioning Virtual Machines on Azure
- Coffee Break 11: Provisioning – Using Microsoft Azure storage to keep VHDs and other stuff in the Cloud
- Coffee Break 12: Provisioning – Automatic Installation and Deployment of Microsoft Dynamics NAV
- Coffee Break 13: Checking file properties and copying files with Windows PowerShell
- Coffee Break 14: Using Windows PowerShell to check and search the Application Log
- Coffee Break 15: Using Windows PowerShell to enable WCF message logging and tracing on Dynamics NAV Server
- Coffee Break 16: Fingerprints and Diff-Checks
And, one additional article about Using Windows Powershell cmdlets to modify companies and databases (not part of Coffee Break story).
All articles are wrote by Jasminka Thunes (Escalation Engineer Dynamics NAV EMEA), Lars Lohndorf-Larsen (Escalation Engineer Dynamics NAV EMEA) and Bas Graaf (Senior Software Engineer Dynamics NAV).
Thanks, very useful.
Using ClickOnce to create Windows Client for NAV2015 Image on Microsoft Azure
The last time when I wrote about new NAV 2015 image on Microsoft Azure, I showed you how to create VM and how to change credential to NavUserPassword for really cloud using. After running the Initialize the Virtual Machine, you got possibility to run all NAV clients from VM and Web Client from your computer. Of course, for this you had to add new Endpoint on Microsoft Azure Portal: HTTPS, with 443 as port numbers. But, I suppose you want to use NAV with Windows Client from your PC. For this usage, we again got an excellent tool on Welcome screen. You need to click on Install Click Once deployment of the Windows Client link and you will find PowerShell script in DEMO folder. You need to run your PowerShell ISE as Administrator and open this script install.ps1. Now, you only need to run this PS script. After few minutes, system will show you all links, and on the end link for ClickOnce. 
Now, you have to add new Endpoints on your Microsoft Azure Portal:
- HTTP, with 80 as port numbers for ClickOnce install (this port is configured in previous script)
- Windows Client, with 7046 for NAV Window Client running
When you finish with Endpoints, you have to use your ClickOnce link from URLs file on your Internet Explorer. System will open ClickOnce Online Installation page. You need to run Install and wait. 
After installation is finished, you only need to fill your credentials and run your Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Windows Client on Microsoft Azure.
That’s all about easy using script for ClickOnce Windows Client installation. But, I will show you something more about it few daysd
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