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Posted on by offfoo182

Hello,

I am becoming a little frustrated with 1 or 2 things and could really use some insight.

When I create a purchase order I can assign an Item to a job no problem, however I cannot do the same for a resource? - Why? Even though I have budgeted for a resource on the job.

Also is there something other than items and resources I can use? I don't carry inventory as all items are delivered to the site, but i do order items for each job.

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offfoo182 40 on at

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Just to clarify I have internal and external resources (sub contractors) so this is obviously for the external resources.

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Marco Mels on at

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Hello,

Do you have some repro steps in standard CRONUS company?

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Janne Penttila 5 on at

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Hello,

any news on this one? I'm also waiting for a solution. There is no need for any repro steps, as Job No. can only be set to line types of Item or G/L Account. As the possibility to purchase resources in Business Central is a new feature, I think that the possibility to assign Resource type purchase line to a job is just something Microsoft did not think or forgot. This would be a very useful feature, I think, and should not be difficult to add.

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Janne Penttila

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Wiechardt Brummer 160 on at

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Please can we get this addressed, I am battling with the same issue.

Repro steps:

1. Create new Purchase Order

2. Select Line Type as Resource

3. Select Resource in the No. field

4. Select a value in the Job No. field

Issue is in Table 39, VerifyLineTypeForJob method

if not (Type in [Type::Item, Type::"G/L Account"]) then

FieldError("Job No.", StrSubstNo(MustNotBeSpecifiedErr, FieldCaption(Type), Type));

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Mohana Yadav 61,005 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Microsoft internally not allowing this at present.

but there is a publisher available before this to skip the error.

You may have to use that and you may face similar errors while posting etc. and need to skip them using the publishers if available.

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AlonsoNuvo on at

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Hi,

Was this resolved?

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No. It is July 28, 2022, and this is still an issue. I will have our internal Developer modify the code.

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Francisco Bedolla 1,123 on at

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Well,

In Business Central standard processes, when you "purchase" some work for an external vendor, you arent purchasing a person or 3 hours from a specific person, you are purchasing a service, and the external and services vendor gives you an invoice for their services. BC is expecting a purchase invoice for a GL account maybe called "external services" or maybe "external resources worked hours".

Some times, when I want to post the hours against the job line, i put gl acc with a suitable account, qty = 3 and unit price per hour in the purchase line and then link the job and job line, can i see the hours in the job line? yes, if you select the job line type in the purchase order

Remember, im talking about standard processes in BC

If you try to select Resource, you will need to create the external resource as internal in your resource table, an special resource posting group for them and set that posting group to an specific gl account because you are assigning a cost., take care of that.

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betea coop 16 on at

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Hi,

As Mohana says, there is a subscriber to avoid the error. However, this has no effect, as, after posting, no Job Ledger Entry of type Usage is written

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