A country-specific update is available for Lithuania: i.SAF reporting of issued and received invoices on Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise Edition

Implementation of the i.SAF reporting requirements for Lithuania includes the following GER configurations:

The process of downloading GER configuration is described in the related article:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/analytics/download-electronic-reporting-configuration-lcs.

Electronic Messages functionality is a new functionality in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operation, Enterprise edition which is provided to maintain different processes of electronic reporting of different document types.

Import data from data entities package

To set up Electronic Messages functionality for i.SAF reporting use a predefined data which is delivered as Data entities package. To do so, download related data entities from LCS portal first - open http://lcs.dynamics.com/ and after log on the portal click on Shared asset library.

Select Data package > LT i.SAF Electronic messages setup and save the archive specifying the path where the Data entities should be stored.

After that, enter Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations and open Workspaces > Data management and click Import.

Fill in a name for importing job, select Package in Source data format and click Upload button:

Select an archive previously saved from LCS portal, wait until all the included data entities will be shown on the screen, click Import on the Action pane.

You will get a notification in the Messages or you may manually refresh the page to see data importing progress. When the importing process is completed, you will see the results on Execution summary page.

Populate records action query setup

Electronic messages functionality let user setup data sources from which data should be collected for the reporting.

For i.SAF reporting data should be collected from three data sources:

• VendInvoiceJour (Accounts payable > Inquiries and reports > Invoice > Invoice journal)
• CustInvoiceJour (Accounts receivable > Inquiries and reports > Invoice > Invoice journal)
• ProjInvoiceJour (Project management and accounting > Project invoices > Project invoices)

By default, all the records from these data sources will be populated to the Message item table on Populate records action run. Query for data collection to be populated to the Message item table can adjusted by using Edit query button on the Datasources setup fast tab:

Parameters setup

After Data entities are imported to the data base, Electronic Messages functionality is almost ready for work. You need to additionally do the following steps:

1. Open Tax > Setup > Electronic messages > Executable class settings, select EMAdditionalFieldsEvaluationController_LT executable class and click Parameters on Action pane. Select in the Invoice type field InvoiceType and click OK.
2. Set up GER configurations for Electronic messages processing actions. Open Tax > Setup > Electronic messages > Message processing actions and set up related GER configurations in Format mapping field for the following actions:

3. Number sequences in General ledger parameters:

Overview of the Electronic messages functionality setup.

To get Electronic Messages functionality ready manually (without importing predefined setup via data entities), you need to set up the following menu items:

• Message item types
• Message item statuses
• Message statuses
• Message item additional fields
• Executable class settings
• Populate records actions
• Web services settings
• Message processing actions
• Electronic message processing

Message item types

Set up Message item types to identify which types of records will be used in Electronic messages.

To set up Message item types, open Tax > Setup > Electronic messages > Message item types.

Fields description:

Message item statuses

Set up Message item statuses to identify which statuses will be applicable for Message items in the processing you are setting up.

To set up Message item statuses, open Tax > Setup > Electronic messages > Message item statuses.

Fields description:

Message statuses

Set up Message statuses to identify which statuses will be applicable for Messages in the processing you are setting up.

To set up Message statuses, open Tax > Setup > Electronic messages > Message statuses.

Fields description:

Message item additional fields

Electronic messages functionality let populate records from a transactional table to prepare for reporting and report them. Sometimes, there is not enough information in the transactional table to report a record according to report requirements. To let a user fill in all the necessary for the reporting information in relation with a record to be reported, set up Message item additional fields. To do so, open Tax > Setup > Electronic messages > Message item additional fields.

Fields description:

Executable class settings

Executable class is an X++ method or class which can be called by the Electronic messages processing in relation with an action to some evaluation needed for the process.

To manually set it up, open Tax > Setup > Electronic messages > Executable class settings, create a line and fill in:

Populate records actions

Populate records actions should be used to set up action which adds records to be sent to the Electronic message item table. To do so, open Tax > Setup > Electronic messages > Populate records actions and create a new record for each action which should add records to the table.

To manually set it up, fill in:

Add as much lines on Datasources setup fast tab as more data sources should be used for the process.

Web services settings

Web services settings used to setup data transmission directly to a web service.

In case of Key Vault certificate usage, activate Use advanced certificate store parameter on System parameters:

Message processing actions

Use Message processing action to create actions for your processing and set up their parameters.

General fields description:

Initial statuses fields description:

Initial status fast tab is not available for actions of initial type: Populate records.

Result statuses fields description:

Electronic message processing

Electronic message processing is a basic concepts of the Electronic messages functionality. It aggregates actions which should be evaluated for the Electronic message. Where actions can be linked via initial and result status or started independently (User processing action type). On Electronic message processing page, user may also select Additional fields which should be supported for the processing.

To work with Electronic Messages functionality in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations, Enterprise Edition, use Tax > Reports > Electronic Messages > Electronic message items.

On Electronic message items page, user can do all the actions to generate Collections in cash report using the following functions:

• Run processing,
• Generate report,
• Update status,
• Electronic messages,
• Original document.

Electronic message items form presents all message items, related to each of them action log and values of addition attributes.

Electronic message items fields description:

Additional attributes fields should be setup for each Message item type for which they are going to be used during processing. On the Electronic message item form on the Additional fields fast tab, you may review or update values for the Additional fields set up for the Message items.

Run processing

Use this function to automatically update Message items. To do so, click Run processing button on the Menu of the Electronic message items form and select i.SAF in the Processing field.

Mark Select action parameter and select an action if you want to perform a particular action or leave Select action parameter unmarked if you want to start the whole process.

For i.SAF process the following actions will be performed:

1. Populate invoices – invoices will be added to the Message item table.
2. Attrib. evaluation – Document type field values will be evaluated for all the added invoice.
3. Generate message – a message will be generated and related Message items according to their status and criteria setup will be added to the generated message.

All other actions set up as Separate action and will not be started automatically.

Generate report

Use this function to generate a report. Select the process in processing field and action related to the report you want to generate in the Action field and click OK. For i.SAF processing, there is only one report available which is related to the GenerateMessage action. Select it if you want to generate a report.

Update status

Use this function to update status for a message item for several message items by criteria.

For i.SAF process, the following Update status actions can be performed:

1. Exclude message item – to exclude some invoices from a query which is used during report generation.
2. Update to Postponed – to mark invoices sending of which should be postponed.
3. Update to initial status – to reverse an invoice status to initial (Populated or Evaluated).

Electronic messages

Use this function to review an Electronic message related to the selected message item.

You may also review all the XML files corresponding to the message item (invoice). To do so, click on Message field of the message item or Electronic message button on the Action pane. On the Electronic message form select a message you for which you want to review an XML report and click on Attachment button on Action pane:

Thus, you will see a form where you may review all the details related to the message. To see the XML file, select a file in the list (request.xml) and click on Open button on the Action pane:

Original document

Use this function to open Invoice journal for the selected message item (invoice).

Prerequisites

You must have one of the following products installed to apply this hotfix:

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise Edition

To work with Purchase and Sales invoices communications on Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise Edition, packages with the following KB numbers should be downloaded from http://lcs.dynamics.com/ installed:

4091584.

The whole list of KB numbers of prerequisites packages is provided in the related GER configurations.

Restart requirement

You must restart the Application Object Server (AOS) service after you apply the hotfix.

If you are encountering an issue downloading, installing this hotfix, or have other technical support questions, contact your partner or, if enrolled in a support plan directly with Microsoft, you can contact technical support for Microsoft Dynamics and create a new support request. To do this, visit the following Microsoft website:

https://mbs.microsoft.com/support/newstart.aspx

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