Changing an item from a standard item to a lot item

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Posted on by DebbieG

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Has anyone done an extension to move an item from a standard item to be batch tracked.

Really dont want to go and create new codes. Client didnt want these batch tracked and now changed their mind.

If anyone has done this via extension, would you mind sharing advice. Happy to pay for the service.

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Debbie

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Sohail Ahmed 11,150 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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In standard Business Central, once an item has ledger entries, you cannot change the tracking configuration (e.g. enabling lot tracking) because it impacts inventory valuation and historical traceability. Therefore, enabling lot tracking on an existing item is blocked for data integrity reasons.

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Yes, it's technically possible via extension, but it requires:

Updating the Item Tracking Code on the item record.

Carefully reworking validation logic to bypass standard restrictions.

Ensuring future transactions (and existing open documents) are compatible.

However, this comes with data risk and is not recommended unless managed by a skilled partner with a full validation and rollback strategy.

➡️ Best to contact your Microsoft partner for a safe and auditable implementation.

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KasparsSemjonovs 4,782 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Try this out in test system first:
1) zero the inventory of this item, through Item journal
2) create a configuration package with Item table, and only the field Item Tracking Code, un remove the Validation for this field.
3) Import and apply the excel with the new item tracking code value for this one item.
4) Post back the inventory for this item through Item journal with the Lot Numbers.

If You don't need to do any corrections on historical entries, all should be good.

if there are a lot of such items, then it is hard to predict if any corrections will be needed, but You test out some most likely scenarios in the test system after the changes.

Better option would be to create new item card, even if it is painful and time consuming. You can rename the old card to some letter Z_xxx so that these kind of items are at the bottom of the list, and block this item, after the inventory has been moved to the new card.

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Khushbu Rajvi. 20,904 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hope this helps: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/inventory-how-count-adjust-reclassify

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YUN ZHU 95,754 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi, hope the following helps.

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Can we skip/ignore field validation errors?

https://yzhums.com/44435/

https://youtu.be/jRhslte2Bnw?si=IbV2Jqc02eCp8uQ7

Thanks.

ZHU

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