Virtual Companies

Hi,

I have setup an AX virtual company so as to share the customer master table between (say) Company A and Company B. If I create a new customer in Company A, everything works fine - the new customer is visible in Company B. Problem is that the client uses automatic numbering for customers so if I now create a new customer from within Company B, it fails because the customer number has already been used.

I don’t want to share the entire number sequences table - Is there any way to ensure that just the number sequence for customer numbers is consistent across the companies?

Thanks for any help

Regards

Alan

hay Alan,

tro resolve tis issue, set the customer number sequences to be unique.

goto ( in company 1):

Sales Ledger (AR) > setup > Parameters > Number Sequences (tab) > find the Customer Account Number seq, right click and goto Main table

now prefix the format of the number sequence with the company id, for example : CO1_######.

repeat the above procedure for company2, but set the number seq format to CO2_######.

hope this helps. let us know if you have any more question.

regards

Mohammed

www.dynamic-ax.co.uk

Hi Mohammed,

Thanks for that.

In the end we decided to setup a new company purely for customer maintenance and use security to limit users to enquiry only on the customer table in the other companies.

Not quite as elegant but will work for us here

regards

Alan