bcquality/microsoft/knowledge/scm/post-revaluation-through-the-item-journal-batch.md

bc-version	domain	keywords	technologies	countries	application-area
all	scm	revaluation inventory-value-per partial-revaluation item-jnl-post-batch item-journal-line runwithcheck standard-cost	al	w1	all

Post calculated revaluation through the item journal batch

Description

A calculated revaluation line with nonblank "Inventory Value Per" represents an aggregate, not a finalized posting against one item ledger entry. Codeunit "Item Jnl.-Post Batch" distributes that value over eligible entries, handles rounding, and coordinates Item/SKU standard-cost updates. Calling the line poster directly skips that batch work even though the input is a valid "Item Journal Line".

Best Practice

Post a prepared revaluation batch through "Item Jnl.-Post Batch". Keep the calculated line's valuation date, aggregation scope, location/variant filters, and revaluation fields intact. The batch expands summarized values into per-entry postings and checks that the eligible inventory has not changed; for partial revaluation it also rechecks remaining quantity before posting.

Do not treat the public "Item Jnl.-Post Line".RunWithCheck API as a replacement for that orchestration. It remains legitimate for finalized individual-entry revaluation lines within a workflow that already supplies the necessary checks; the batch itself uses the line poster. A call to that API without evidence of summarized or partial revaluation is not this defect.

The samples explicitly require "Value Entry Type" = Revaluation and a nonblank "Inventory Value Per" in an existing calculated journal batch. They demonstrate posting, not how to calculate a new valuation or choose a standard cost.

Anti Pattern

Report a loop that sends calculated aggregate revaluation lines straight to "Item Jnl.-Post Line", or a custom partial-revaluation workflow that bypasses the remaining-quantity recheck visible in the standard batch. A loop over the journal is not equivalent to distributing the aggregate over its underlying item entries.

Do not recommend directly editing existing "Value Entry" cost amounts or the Item's unit cost to repair the result. Use the revaluation/cost-adjustment workflow appropriate to the correction.

Samples

• post-revaluation-through-the-item-journal-batch.bad.al
• post-revaluation-through-the-item-journal-batch.good.al

References

• Revaluation design
• Inventory posting design
• BaseApp summarized revaluation and remaining-quantity checks