Get Next Journal Entry Number

Microsoft Dynamics GPA colleague is currently working on some development for Microsoft Dynamics GP and needs to create a journal.

I did some digging around the company database looking for the correct way to get the next Journal Entry number and found a function called glGetNextJournalEntry.

A little work and I was able to supply the following to the developer for him to wrap into a stored procedure to get the Journal Entry number and make sure there were no issues in GP;

/*
Created by Ian Grieve of azurecurve | Ramblings of an IT Professional (http://www.azurecurve.co.uk) This code is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Int). */
DECLARE @l_tINCheckWORKFiles tinyint = 1 DECLARE @I_iSQLSessionID int = USER_SID() DECLARE @O_tOUTOK tinyint DECLARE @IO_iOUTJournalEntry int = 1 DECLARE @O_iErrorState int EXECUTE glGetNextJournalEntry    @l_tINCheckWORKFiles    ,@I_iSQLSessionID    ,@IO_iOUTJournalEntry OUTPUT    ,@O_tOUTOK OUTPUT    ,@O_iErrorState OUTPUT SELECT @IO_iOUTJournalEntry AS 'NJRNLENT', @O_tOUTOK AS 'OUTOK', @O_iErrorState AS 'ERROR'

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