Keep Sales Order Open after posting

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I was wondering if it is possible to post a Sales Order, but not change the status to 'Released'. I would like to keep the status as 'Open', until it is manually released by pressing the 'Release' button on the Sales Order.

How can I achieve this without putting myself in an infinite loop using AL?

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Khushbu Rajvi. 20,275 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hope this helps: https://yzhums.com/14923/

https://www.dynamicsuser.net/t/business-central-how-to-keep-sales-order-after-completely-shipped-and-invoiced/67927

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YUN ZHU 95,331 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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The system will check the status of the order when posting. If it is not released, it cannot be posted (this is also controlled in Workflow)

So instead of bypassing this check, you can do the following in AL.
After the release is successful, find this order, open it, and you're done.

Hope this can give you some hints.

Thanks.

ZHU

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Ramesh Kumar 7,527 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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In standard Business Central, you need to release the order before posting a shipment or invoice. However, this can be achieved through custom code, allowing orders to remain open via a job queue for all invoiced or shipped orders.

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Jun Wang 8,200 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Not sure why you need such behavior. There might be other options if you share the business needs. If you want to control posting a sales order, you could also consider using workflow as well.

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Valentin Castravet 31,340 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Can you clarify what you're trying to achieve? There may be standard functionality that can accomplish this without the need for customization.

Valentin Castravet
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Hi @Valentin Castravet

When a Sales Order is posted, the customer wants to keep the Sales Order in the Sales Order list, and keep the Status as Open. Then, at a point further down, they want to manually Release the order by pressing the "Release" button on the order.

Everything else should work exactly like it is supposed to when posting an order.

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Hagru 311 on at

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I verified the answer @Khushbu Rajvi. delivered, as that helped me a lot on the way. I mixed this with another trigger in the Sales-Post CodeUnit, and the results are what I was looking for.

Along with a field in the Sales Setup, this is the final code. I am adding it here both for my own future reference, but also for others that may be looking for a similar solution:

[EventSubscriber(ObjectType::Codeunit, Codeunit::"Sales-Post", OnBeforeFinalizePosting, '', false, false)]

local procedure KeepSalesOrdersAfterInvoiced(var EverythingInvoiced: Boolean)

var

SalesSetup: Record "Sales & Receivables Setup";

begin

SalesSetup.FindFirst();

if SalesSetup.AllowStatusStayOpen then begin

EverythingInvoiced := false;

end;

end;

[EventSubscriber(ObjectType::Codeunit, Codeunit::"Sales-Post", OnAfterFinalizePosting, '', false, false)]

local procedure SetStatusBackToOpen(var SalesHeader: Record "Sales Header")

var

SalesSetup: Record "Sales & Receivables Setup";

begin

SalesSetup.FindFirst();

if SalesSetup.AllowStatusStayOpen then begin

SalesHeader.Status := SalesHeader.Status::Open;

SalesHeader.Modify();

end;

end;

This allows the Sales Order to stay in the list with an Open status, and the user is also allowed to manually Release the Order.

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