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Consolidation with Import file structure and reference documentation

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Posted on by mcdstyle 12

Hello All,

We currently have a situation where we need to consolidate multiple legal entities that are within D365, and a number that are not on D365. We are planning to use the Consolidation within D365 as opposed to using soft consolidation in MR. As far as I am aware we have two options: 

1) Import the balances for external legal entities via Journal into Legal Entities each month and then run consolidation (this is not ideal as it means we will have to change our Main Account configuration every month to allow manual entry on some accounts where we ordinarily would not allow it, which poses a risk [and it's not a Legal Entity override parameter, which would be great if it was]).

2) Online consolidation with Import. This seems like it would be the correct option for us so that we do not have to allow manual entry on the Main Accounts, however I have scoured Docs and the web to try and find some documentation on how to correctly configure this, but have had no luck. Does anyone have a link to further information I could read through to help my understanding? I have exported some consolidation transactions, which gave me a text file in the format I'm assuming will be used for the import - however it is not easy to understand exactly what each line represents. I can get the overall picture, but when I tried to populate a file with only a few lines and run Consolidation with Import, it threw an error and failed.

Thanks in Advance, 

LM

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  • Satish Panwar Profile Picture
    Satish Panwar 14,671 Moderator on at
    RE: Consolidation with Import file structure and reference documentation

    In an export or import consolidation, the subsidiary legal entities are in different databases than the consolidated legal entity. The subsidiary data is exported to files that are created automatically. Those files are then imported into the database of the consolidated legal entity. So typically this option is used when multiple AX instances are present for same customer.

    However this doesn't limit us to use this feature and it will work with what you are trying to do. Only caveat is that you have to build the import files and then import in D365FO with import option. Below is sample of how this file is created.. file was created with export option. you can see how D365 created the file, if you build same kind of file, you should be able to import as well.

    Consolidate.png

  • mcdstyle Profile Picture
    mcdstyle 12 on at
    RE: Consolidation with Import file structure and reference documentation

    Hi Satish,

    Thanks for the response. I understand everything you mention, and have previously created an export file similar to the one you created - however what I am still struggling with is is there any documentation on what each field does? Eg what do the 1's and 0's represent in the lines starting with 5? I could work out that one of them was a DR/CR identifier - but not sure on the other ones. We will need to extract the information we are going to consolidate from a non-D365 entity, so will need to give the Developers of the other system a spec on what to populate each field with.

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    Satish Panwar Profile Picture
    Satish Panwar 14,671 Moderator on at
    RE: Consolidation with Import file structure and reference documentation

    See below... after the date it's always 1

    after company it's either 0 or 1. 0 for +ve side of the transaction and 1 for negatives.

    After the amount it's always 0

    Last is line number for the transaction and it's a running number. This line number then help identify the corresponding financial dimension with rows starting with 7.

    ....

    5,"140200","2017/10/17",1,"EUR",0,0,1104.9,0,1

    5,"200140","2017/10/17",1,"EUR",1,0,-1104.9,0,2

    5,"140200","2017/10/18",1,"EUR",0,0,1151.98,0,3

    5,"130800","2017/10/18",1,"EUR",0,0,38,0,4

    5,"600180","2017/10/18",1,"EUR",0,0,0,0,5

    5,"200140","2017/10/18",1,"EUR",0,0,300,0,6

    5,"999999","2017/10/18",1,"EUR",0,0,0,0,7

    5,"140200","2017/10/18",1,"EUR",1,0,-300,0,8

    5,"200110","2017/10/18",1,"EUR",1,0,-338,0,9

    7,"001",1,1

    7,"023",2,1

    7,"demf",5,1

    7,"001",1,2

    7,"023",2,2

    7,"demf",5,2

    7,"001",1,3

    7,"023",2,3

    7,"demf",5,3

    7,"001",1,4

    7,"023",2,4

    7,"demf",5,4

    7,"Audio",4,5

    .....

    Unfortunately haven't seen any detailed documentation. best would be get some sample data for consolidation, enter journal entry in system. export it and see what you get. This will allow you to set the spec. Hope this helps.

  • KBagri Profile Picture
    KBagri 25 on at
    RE: Consolidation with Import file structure and reference documentation

    Hi

    Did anyone manage to locate any documentation regarding the file structure?

    Also, is it possible to import into different posting layers?

    In advance, thanks

    Regards

    KB

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