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Please enhance product documentation by providing explanation for each field in the table, together with relevant example. This will provide so much clarity for consultants and end users.


Another competitor ERP product that I used to work with has done a very good job with this. They have a field reference help page for every single card and table fields, including explanation on the purpose of each field. For example, the official description of field "Use FA Ledger Check" in table FA Depreciation Books is: "Specifies which checks to perform before posting a journal line" - this is not very helpful. I had to search the internet to find out that the field actually does the below:


When this value is set to true, the system will do the following checks:


  Acquisition cost is the first entry (FA posting date is used).

  Acquisition cost is entered as a debit.

  Disposal (if any) is the last entry (FA posting date is used).

  Depreciable basis has a debit balance.

  Book value has a debit balance unless there is a check mark in the Allow Depr. below Zero field in the depreciation book.

  Accumulated depreciation, accumulated salvage value, and accumulated sales price have credit balances.

  Write-down, appreciation, custom 1, and custom 2 entries match the setting in the Sign field in the FA Posting Type Setup window.


If this field is blank, Business Central only checks the following:


  Acquisition cost is the first entry (FA posting date is used).

  Disposal (if any) is the last entry (FA posting date is used).


For example, if you remove the check mark in the Use FA Ledger Check field, you can post accumulated depreciation as a debit when acquisition cost has been posted as a credit.


The latter example is the sort of contents we need. We should have a page for each card/each table that explains, and where applicable, provides practical examples for each field. This will help removing guesswork for consultants and end users, also reduces implementation errors, which improves customer satisfaction.

Category: Documentation
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Thank you for this suggestion! Currently this is not on our roadmap. We are tracking this idea and if it gathers more votes and comments we will consider it in the future. Best regards, Business Central Team