How to: Set Up Incoming Documents

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If you create general journal lines from incoming document records, you must specify in the Incoming Documents Setup window which journal template and batch to use.

If you do not want users to create invoices or general journal lines from incoming document records unless the documents are first approved, you must set up approvers in the Incoming Document Approvers window.

To turn PDF and image files into electronic documents that you can convert to, for example, purchase invoices inside Dynamics NAV, you must first set up the OCR feature and enable the service.

When the Incoming Documents feature is set up, you can use different functions to review expense receipts, manage OCR tasks, and convert incoming document files, manually or automatically, to the relevant documents or journal lines. The external files can be attached at any process stage, including to posted documents and to the resulting vendor, customer, and general ledger entries. For more information, see Processing Incoming Documents.

To set up the Incoming Documents feature

  1. Choose the Search for Page or Report icon, enter Incoming Document Setup, and then choose the related link.
  2. Fill in the fields as necessary. Choose a field to read a short description of the field or link to more information.

To set up approvers of incoming document records

  1. Choose the Search for Page or Report icon, enter Incoming Document Setup, and then choose the related link.

  2. In the Incoming Documents Setup window, choose the Approvers action.

    The Incoming Document Approvers window shows all users that are set up in Dynamics NAV.

  3. Select one or more users that can approve an incoming document before a related document or journal line can be created.

When approvers have been set up in the Incoming Document Approvers window, only those users can approve an incoming document if the Require Approval To Create check box in the Incoming Documents Setup window is selected.

Note

This approval setup is not related to approval workflows. For more information, see How to: Use Approval Workflows.

To set up an OCR service

  1. Choose the Search for Page or Report icon, enter OCR Service Setup, and then choose the related link.
  2. Fill in the fields as necessary. Choose a field to read a short description of the field or link to more information.

To encrypt your login information

It is recommended that you protect the logon information that you enter in the OCR Service Setup window. You can encrypt data on the server by generating new or importing existing encryption keys that you enable on the server instance that connects to the database.

  1. In the OCR Service Setup window, choose the Encryption Management action.
  2. In the Data Encryption Management window, enable encryption of your data.

See Also

Dynamics 365 Business Central
Process Incoming Documents
Incoming Documents
Purchasing
Working with Dynamics NAV