"Copy from last financial year" option is disabled: Is it a bug or need parameters settings

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Posted on by Faisal Fareed

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I wanted to create new financial year by copying all financial periods from previous year. I did it from General Ledger > Setup > Financial calendars. When I click on New Financial year, "Copy from last financial year" field is disabled.

When I checked code behind it and found this condition;

This condition is actually verifying the number of days in current year with the number of days in previous year. As I am creating new finanical year in current year from April 2015 to March 2016 which becomes 365 days which is not equal to number of days (364) in previous year as it was a leap year with feb of 28 days.

if ((periodEndDate.dateValue() - periodStartDate.dateValue()) ==
(prevFiscalYear.EndDate - prevFiscalYear.StartDate))
{
copyPrevYear.value(NoYes::Yes);
copyPrevYear.enabled(true);
periodEndDate.allowEdit(false);
periodStartDate.allowEdit(false);
periodUnit.allowEdit(false);
periodQty.allowEdit(false);
}
else
{
copyPrevYear.value(NoYes::No);
copyPrevYear.enabled(false);
periodEndDate.allowEdit(true);
periodStartDate.allowEdit(false);
periodUnit.allowEdit(true);
periodQty.allowEdit(true);
}

Is it actually a bug in AX or I can handle this situation in some parameter settings?

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Hi Faisal,

By the way which version you are using? Have a look at user security.

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Faisal Fareed 10,796 User Group Leader on at

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I am on AX 2012 R2 CU7. User security does not have anything to do here as It is a stright forward code which i pasted. There must be some parameter settings for this either.

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André Arnaud de Cal... 301,020 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Faisal,

There is no setting in AX for this. I would consider this as a bug. Verifying the days of a year is not possible for leap years.

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Faisal Fareed 10,796 User Group Leader on at

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Have not found any settings in AX so possibly going to report this to MS as a bug.

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OyvindBerg 25 on at

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Hi,

This is probably almost outdated but I found this thread searching for the same issue for a customer.

This problem could be caused by one of the years involved in copying is a leap year.

Technet : "Do not select this check box if either the previous fiscal year or the new fiscal year is a leap year. If you select this check box, any periods that include the month of February will not match the previous fiscal year."

In AX2012 R3 the checkbox is greyed out when trying to copy to a leap year. Copy from 2018 to 2019 works fine, but not 2019 to 2020.

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