There are a few places in Dynamics NAV, where you set them up once, and then forget. Unless, you do a new installation, you don’t really need to go through these setup fields again. One, of these fields is Check G/L Account Usage Field in The General Ledger Setup Table.
Firstly, you need to know, that it is possible to delete G/L Accounts in Dynamics NAV. Obviously, if you have any outstanding balance, you will not be able to delete G/L Account. Instead, you will get error message saying: Balance must be 0 in G/L Account No.=’ACCOUNT’. However, if you have a balance of 0 (even if you had General Ledger Entries posted), you will be able to delete G/L Account.
That’s where it might be useful to know (and use) the field Check G/L Account Usage:
Check G/L Account Usage Field The General Ledger Setup Table
A check mark in this field indicates that you want the program to protect G/L accounts that are used in setup tables from being deleted. If there is a check mark in this field and you try to delete a G/L account, the program will check if the account is used in one of the following tables:
- Currency
- Customer Posting Group
- Vendor Posting Group
- Job Posting Group
- General Posting Setup
- Bank Account Posting Group
- VAT Posting Setup
- FA Posting Group
- Inventory Posting Setup
- Service Contract Account Group
- Gen. Journal Template
- Gen. Journal Batch
- Gen. Jnl. Allocation
- FA Allocation
If you have a checkmark in Check G/L Account Usage field, when deleting G/L Account which has been used in setups, you will get error message: You cannot delete a G/L Account that is used in one or more setup windows.
I need some help guys,
My “Allow Posting from and To” fields are “greyed” out cannot change to the new year.
Any Ideas.
Thanks