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Set Status field of Purchase Order to editable

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Posted on by ankhbileg01 5

Hello I'm trying to create approval workflow using Power Automate. After approved it needs to change Status of Purchase order. I have no issue in updating other field, but  Status field is read only  and giving me error. How to set status field editable ?

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  • Marco Mels Profile Picture
    Marco Mels on at

    Hello,

    There are out of the box approval workflows that do this job for you on your behalf.

    Thank you.

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    DAnny3211 Profile Picture
    DAnny3211 11,403 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi

    have you tried in the power automate flow when a record is approved to retrieve the row with the ROW ID with the Update Row (V2) block and update in the status field? it should work

    IF YES ->SEND an EMAIL -> Update record (V2)

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    YUN ZHU 97,376 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi, As far as I know this field cannot be modified directly, you may need to call the standard method.

    "Release Sales Document".PerformManualRelease(Rec);

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    PS: How to run AL procedure in Power Automate (Add custom execute actions)

    https://yzhums.com/20111/

    Hope this helps.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

  • ankhbileg01 Profile Picture
    ankhbileg01 5 on at

    Yes, I tried that method and this gives me an error. "Status field is read only".

    I've used Update record V3

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    DAnny3211 Profile Picture
    DAnny3211 11,403 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    hi

    I ran a test on my sandbox, setting up an approval flow with Power automate

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    the flow that is created if successful already sets the Status field to Released on the Sales Order

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    My Example:

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    as you can see, my Status field was modified without my adding a line of code

    DAniele Incalza

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    Nitin Verma Profile Picture
    Nitin Verma 21,748 Moderator on at

    Thanks Great information.

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    ankhbileg01 5 on at

    I tried exactly same, but it gives me an error.

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    Marco Mels Profile Picture
    Marco Mels on at

    Hallo,

    Are you able to reproduce this error in a standard unmodified database without any extensions?

    Thank you.

  • ankhbileg01 Profile Picture
    ankhbileg01 5 on at

    This is fresh new database just created from CDX. I didn't install any extension, or data

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    Marco Mels Profile Picture
    Marco Mels on at

    Hello,

    Okay, when I am in the office again (tomorrow, w. europe standard time), I will setup a new CDX environment and try the scenario myself. As soon as I have a result, I will let you know.

    Thank you.

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