Creating an invoice from a delivery does not closes the delivery.

Question

I am creating an invoice using DI. The invoice is based on an already existing delivery note.
The delivery is manually created from SBO. When I'm creating the invoice I transfer all items and expenses from the delivery to the invoice.
case 1. The delivery has no freight defined.
When the invoice is created the delivery is automatically closed
case 2. The delivery has some freight
When the invoice is created the delivery remains open even though the invoice contains everything in the delivery, including the freight.
'Copy to' from this delivery opens an invoice with no items - only the freight is filled.
Currently I explicitly close the delivery using the Close method.
Is this correct?
Is it normal for the base document to remain open if the target document imports everything?
Thanks,
Svilen

Answer 1

Hi Svilen,
My experience with getting a delivery note to automatically close when I create an invoice against it is that the base document information on each line item on the invoice must be set to point at the delivery note (base document).  You are probably already doing this on your line items and that's why it closes when there is no freight.  But freight items have "base" fields too, and they have to point back to the freight item on the delivery note.   Are you setting the base doc info on the invoice freight lines?
The following code worked for me (although this example is for sales order to delivery, it is the same thing for deliveries to invoices):
                Dim ix As Short
                Do Until ix = vso.Expenses.Count
                    vso.Expenses.SetCurrentLine(ix)
                    If vso.Expenses.ExpenseCode = _FreightExpCode Then
                        If vso.Expenses.Status = bost_Open Then
                            vDN.Expenses.BaseDocEntry = SODocEntry 'added 1/5/7 jc
                            vDN.Expenses.BaseDocLine = vso.Expenses.LineNum
                            vDN.Expenses.BaseDocType = SAPbobsCOM.BoAPARDocumentTypes.bodt_Order
                        End If
                        Exit Do
                    End If
                    ix += 1
                Loop
I'm looping through the target (order) document's freight records to find the matching one that I know is on it - you might be processing all - but then I load the sales order base docentry, base doc line# & base doc type to the delivery note freight line item.
When getting this done, my source documents close OK.  In fact, I think they close even if the totals don't match on each record - just so long as every source doc record is pointed to by a target doc record.
HTH