Item Tracking
In this example, we are talking about turning on Item Tracking for existing items that have at least one Item Ledger Entry. This is a casuistry in which Dynamics NAV will not allow us to turn Item Tracking on.
In the previous section, we already talked about some of the steps that will have to be performed for this to be possible. We will follow the official workaround to implement this functional change, as we have seen that some other solutions can lead to data inconsistency, unpredictable behavior, or some other functionalities not working as expected.
Let's write down the list of actions we need to perform in order to turn on Item Tracking for existing items that have at least one Item Ledger Entry:
- Reduce the quantity in hand to zero by making negative adjustments of all items for which Item Tracking will be turned on.
- Rename all those items.
- Create new items and give them the name of the original items.
- Create and configure related data for the new items that...
