"Simulation" of intercompany functionality

rsaritzky

Hi:

I'm working at a 3.60 site planning an upgrade to Nav2009. They have a very-limited intercompany type of functionality already customized. It actually mirrors very much the design of the new standard Intercompany granule (though a lot more limited in features). But the general architecture is similar:

1. A purchase invoice is created in company A to Vendor "123". When this happens, a record gets written to an intercompany table. When this intercompany table is processed, a second purchase invoice in company B is created, with Company A as the vendor. Also, a Sales Invoice in Company A (with Company B as the customer) is also created.

2. Currently, a Processing-Only report in Company B is run that runs against the intercompany table that actually creates the Purchase Order in Company B.

They wish to change the processing slightly - they would like ot change it to the following.

When the Purchase order in Company A is POSTED, it then creates the intercompany record, but the process to create the Purchase Order in company B happens immediately, and the Purchase Order in Company B is posted automatically.

My question is: Has anyone ever tried to initiate a process (i.e. call a codeunit or run a ProcOnly report) from one Company that executes the process in another company, i.e. could I do a CHANGECOMPANY('Company B') and then do a REPORT.RUN or CODEUNIT.RUN? Would this work?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

ara3n

you cannot use change company. You can use it to insert the record, but you cannot run the business logic.
You need to use webservice. Here is a link on how to use webservice.

http://mibuso.com/blogs/ara3n/2009/01/2 ... companies/

You can use the example and create a new function and call the webservice function to post the PO.

rsaritzky

Thanks for the link to how to use a web service - good idea, nice explanation on the link.

ara3n

you are welcome and good luck.

dolly004

this is an interesting discussion.. thank you for sharing
simulation rachat de credit

ara3n

You are welcome. webservices is a solution to many short comings in nav.