Additional Features

Smaller capabilities that help day to day but do not fill a chapter of their own.

DATANORM details on the item

Every item the app creates carries its DATANORM origin, so you can trace later where an item came from.

Field on the item	Contents
DATANORM Article No.	The supplier's article number.
DATANORM Vendor No.	Vendor whose delivery the item came from.
DATANORM Set Number	Filled when the item is a set item.
DATANORM EAN/GTIN	Barcode from the file.
DATANORM Vendor Article No.	Vendor item number, where delivered.

These fields are also the basis of duplicate detection, see Duplicates and Validation.

Extended texts

Long texts from the T record are stored as an extended text on the item. Business Central can pull them into documents automatically – useful for detailed article descriptions in quotes.

Filtering and reporting

Because the origin sits on the item, reports need no extra work:

Question	Filter
Which items come from a given supplier?	Item list, filter on DATANORM Vendor No.
Which items are set items?	Filter on DATANORM Set Number is not empty
Which items arrived through DATANORM?	Filter on DATANORM Article No. is not empty
Where does a single item come from?	Item card, the section with the DATANORM fields

Handling deletion flags

DATANORM can flag articles as deleted. Delete Flag Handling in the setup determines what happens then:

Setting	Effect
Manual Review	The record waits for your decision. The shipped default.
Block Item	The item is blocked in Business Central but keeps its history.
End-Date Price	The price line gets an ending date; the item stays usable.

Block Item is usually better than deleting: Business Central prevents deletion when entries exist, and the history stays available for reporting.

Copper values

Copper weight and copper raw price are taken from the file and kept on the item. The app does not derive a current price from them. Model copper recalculation with standard Business Central functionality, see Limitations.

Background processing

Large files run in a background session so you can carry on working. Set the threshold through Background Threshold and the block size through Batch Size. See Import Process.

Context-sensitive help

The app is linked to this documentation. The question mark in Business Central takes you to the app help straight from the page you are on.