Breaking change in Item Cross Reference BC18

Capone

Microsoft is going to replace the Item Cross Reference functionality with item Reference.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2020wave2/smb/dynamics365-business-central/write-longer-item-references

Microsoft has created a migration feature for this


The breaking change consists of that it migrates from:
"Item Cross Reference"."Cross-Reference Type No." Code[30]) --> "Item Reference"."Reference Type No." Code[20])

So it tries to migrate from code[30] to code[20] which means that customers that has for A LOT OF years been having codes > 20 characters now need to reorganize their data which seems like a very unnecessary action to me.

I have created an idea for this that aims to keep the length and increase the new field to 30 characters.
You can upvote it here:
https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=de49b904-7334-eb11-8441-0003ff68e4a2

Duizy

Don't get me wrong but "Cross-Reference Type No." Code[30] only contains customer or vendor no. which is to my knowledge Code[20].
I think you are talking about "Cross-Reference No." Code[20] which is becoming "Reference No." Code[50]
All and all pretty good.