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Archive service management documents

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Users by admins, makers, or analysts - Oct 1, 2024

Business value

Service documents often change and evolve during their lifecycle. The archiving capability gives you control over your service data through audit trails and version control.

Feature details

Archiving capabilities for service management are similar to the functionality in the sales and purchase areas. You can set up documents to archive automatically. With automatic archiving, Business Central creates a new version of the archived document when users do the following actions:

  • Delete a service quote or service order.
  • Post a service order.
  • Convert a service quote to an order.

The system also extends the functionality of contract filing, which stores a version of a service contract or service contract quote. Filed service contracts and filed service contract quotes now include more fields, such as Payment Method Code and Direct Debit Mandate ID. They also include the following related tables:

  • Filed Contract/Service Discount
  • Filed Contract Service Hour
  • Filed Service Contract Comment Line

Filed Service Contract

You control the archiving process. The following list shows the documents and options for archiving when you set up automatic archiving on the Service Management Setup page:

  • Archive service quotes: Never (default), Questions, Always.
  • Archive orders: Yes/No.
  • Delete Filed Contracts: Yes/No.

Service Management Setup

Use the Archive action to manually archive versions of service documents, such as service quotes and orders.

Archive Service Order

To keep your database size manageable, add archived service documents to the Retention policy tables list.

Retention policies

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