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Question about General Journals + Line_No Field

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Hi there! My employer is looking to have me create a General Journal entry based on a sum of payments made to our customer management application, which is separate from Microsoft Dynamics. I will be programmatically adding these values together and inserting the journal entry. Once finished, I need to associate something unique from that journal entry (such as an id field) to the records I added together.

After spending some time analyzing the responses generated from doing this, I have identified the Line_No field as the most likely to fulfill this purpose. Based on the test entries I created, the Line_No field appears to be unique and is incremented in amounts of 10,000. I'm hoping someone here can confirm that I am interpreting this correctly and that the line number will always be unique. If someone can confirm that, I would sincerely appreciate it.

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    Hi

    As far as I can tell and know Line No in each general journal is unique. in the other words if you have journal A and then line 10,000 you only can have one of this number. But after posting journal A if you create Journal B then you will have another 10,000 line.

    My recommendation is to test this: create one general journal with 2 lines then try Edit in Excel and try to change Line_NO to be identical and then publish and see the result.

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    10 on at

    Ohh I forgot about being able to view the records in Excel. Our vendor had shown that feature off months ago and I haven't had cause to use it (as I'm a developer, not a user of Business Central), so it promptly fell off my radar. Thank you for the tip, I'll give that a try!

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