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Cannot create Purchase invoice from outlook plugin

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Hi

I am just getting started using Dynamics Business Central, and a few weeks ago I tested the functionality to crate a purchase invoice from an email with an attached invoice document. This worked okay in a test company, but now I want to create my first invoice in a real company and now i doesn't work.

First I struggled a bit with understanding why my vendor was not visible in Contact Insights, but after a while I realised that my vendors must also exist as "Contacts". (I wish a vendor would automatic be a contact, but that is an other question).

I created contacts for my vendors and now I can find my vendor (in this case vendor 00012 Microsoft) with the Contact Insights button in Outlook - and I can choose the action New->Purchase Invoice:

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When I press the Purchase Invoice function/button, I can see that something is started because the 5 dots starts to move from left side to right side of the screen :

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but this just continues forever. At some point a black box turns up at the buttom of the screen saying "Working on it ..." :

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After 10 min. I cancel the process by closing the outlook window and now I can actually see the invoice in Business Central, but as I was never given the change to enter required data, this is missing and worst of all - the incomming document is not created, so the created purchase invoice is useless.

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Am I missing some settings or ???

Best regards

Thomas Madsen Nielsen

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    50 on at

    OK, I just realised that the problem simply is that the function is veeery slow. After I press the create purchase invoice button in outlook, I am sometimes lucky that the window where I can enter invoice number, posting date and item lines occurs already after 4 minutes!! 

    As both office (outlook)  and Business Central are in Microsoft cloud, I assume this is not a problem I can fix.

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    Hello.

    Feel free to raise it via your partner or CSP. 4 minutes is an issue.

    Thanks.

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