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D365 F&O - Expense report not defaulting employee-linked Vendor or Vendor financial dimensions

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I am using the new Expense Management workspace at my employer. We are setting up Expense Management for the first time, and I have come across an issue. The expense reports are not defaulting the employee linked Vendor record, or defaulting to the employee-linked Vendor financial dimensions
 
Steps I took:
 
1. I created a test Vendor account, and set Status to None. It also has default financial dimensions and a bank account assigned
2. I then created a test user, created a test employee and associated both in the User record. 
3. I then selected the test employee record-Expenses-Employee mapping and per diem rates. I added the test Vendor account from step 1 here
4. Go to Expense Management workspace, created new expense report. The Supplier is blank, and all financial dimensions are blank. I was expecting the dimensions would default to the Vendor financial dimensions
5. If I select the test Vendor account myself in the new expense report, this still doesn't populate the financial dimensions from Vendor record into the expense report
 
When I create a new expense report, I need the expense report to:
- Select the employee-linked Vendor as default
- Populate all financial dimensions from the employee-linked Vendor record
 
However, upon creating the new expense report all are blank. Is anyone able to advise if I have missed an obvious step somewhere?
 
Other things to note:
 
- All expense payment methods have Expense Owner=Company, and Offset Account Type=Worker
- All expense categories have payment method assigned, as well as Main Account
- Basic workflow is active
- No expense policies have been setup yet
 
Test Employee:
 
 
Test User:
 
 
Test Supplier:
 
 
New expense report:
 
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    Adis Profile Picture
    5,724 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    D365 F&O - Expense report not defaulting employee-linked Vendor or Vendor financial dimensions
    Hi,
     
    Regarding fin. dimension, they are coming from the employee record and not from the vendor.
    You can define the fin. dim. under the work history or employment history.
    We dont even display the vendor account, you dont need to populate it as the employee is linked to the vendor. 
     
     

    Kind regards, Adis

     

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  • JayJay123 Profile Picture
    88 on at
    D365 F&O - Expense report not defaulting employee-linked Vendor or Vendor financial dimensions
    @Adis Thanks for the response, you are correct - the financial dimensions do get picked up from the Employee record, NOT the Vendor record as I had mistakenly assumed.
     
    Is there any way to use the Vendor dimensions rather than the Employee dimensions, for expenses? I cant see anything in the parameters to enable this change, so I am guessing I am out of luck. We dont assign dimensions to Employee record at all, because we dont want purchase requisitions to default to Employee dimensions.
  • Adis Profile Picture
    5,724 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    D365 F&O - Expense report not defaulting employee-linked Vendor or Vendor financial dimensions
    Hey,
     
    I ve also never seen a parameter that controls from where the fin. dim. are being defaulted, therefore, my very strong assumption is its per code.
     
     
    I see here possible approaches. 
     
    • Check out a power automate solution. You may need to adjust entities, however, the idea is to pull fin. dim. from the vendor and then insert it in the expense report. Question is when it is the right time to populate it - this can become very complex
    • Check out the usage of Financial Tags. There are automatic rules that can be applied. However, this is relatively new and not sure if it works with the expense management module.
     
    I know its not ideal, just giving some ideas.
     

    Kind regards, Adis

     

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    D365 F&O - Expense report not defaulting employee-linked Vendor or Vendor financial dimensions
    I have seen a relevant item on MS Ideas and have upvoted it. Hopefully others can do the same too
     

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