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General Journal Import via Excel add in - lines do not publish and disappear

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I'm trying to use the excel add ins to import lines into a general journal. The service is running. If I go to "add data" in excel then I can open the data source "General Journal entries" and add fields from this.

Having added fields I can refresh the data and it will successfully pull existing journal lines from AX. My problem is adding new lines. Every time I try to publish it tells me that there are 0 successful records and 0 failed records and the lines that I created in the excel template promptly disappear.

The fields I have selected in the field picker are as follows:

  • From Ledger Journal Table
    • Journal Batch number
    • Name
    • Description
  • From Journal Lines
    • Journal Batch number
    • Voucher
    • RecID (this is added automatically)
    • Line number.date
    • Line number.account type
    • Company Accounts
    • Debit
    • Credit
    • Currency
    • LedgerDimension.MainAccount
    • LedgerDimension.BusinessUnit
    • LedgerDimension.Department
    • Description

I am putting a manual value into Journal Batch number (eg TEST1) and a manual value into voucher and RecID (just using any old numerical value).

Every time I try to publish it is deleting my newly created lines and refreshing the worksheet with other journal lines retrieved from AX.

What am I doing wrong? What are the minimum required fields for importing journal lines? How should fields be populated where they would normally be populated by number sequences? Are there any limitations on how the number sequences for those fields should be set up?

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  • Rasmus Lang Profile Picture
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    RE: General Journal Import via Excel add in - lines do not publish and disappear

    Hi Andrew,

    I am having the same issue. Separating the tables do not seem to work for me. Could you share how you have set it up?

  • Ludwig Reinhard Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: General Journal Import via Excel add in - lines do not publish and disappear

    Hi JoanneMahoney,

    D365 has the Excel templates automatically build in.

    Please check out the following pages:

    docs.microsoft.com/.../open-lines-excel-journals-documents

    Best regards,

    Ludwig

  • JoanneMahoney Profile Picture
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    RE: General Journal Import via Excel add in - lines do not publish and disappear

    Do you have instructions for this for Dynamics 365? I am looking for reference information and not finding it. 

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    Andrew Wallis Profile Picture
    85 on at
    RE: General Journal Import via Excel add in - lines do not publish and disappear

    Thanks for your reply Ludwig. I believe I have now figured out the problem. In the original template I created there was no space between the journal header fields and the journal lines fields. By separating them into two tables the upload seems to work. It seems to be a bit inconsistent with the status worksheet - my first example was to add lines to a table full of data already pulled from AX. When publishing back the status worksheet reported 1 successful record and it appears in AX. My second example was to apply a filter to hide all the existing data and add new data. This time the status worksheet reports no successful records but the data does appear to have published correctly!

    In any case it seems to be working now.

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    Ludwig Reinhard Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: AX 2012 General Journal Import via Excel add in - lines do not publish and disappear

    Hi, probably have a look at the following site [View:https://dynamicsax-fico.com/tag/excel-add-in/]

    Best regards

    Ludwig

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