How Do You Record Business Central Purchase and Blanket Order Changes?

MB-800 By islever Editorial Last updated Sep 23, 2026

Short answer

ACE Open Purchases & Payables Setup and enable archiving for orders and blanket orders to record changes without performance impact.

Question

A manufacturer uses Dynamics 365 Business Central to procure items. When the manufacturer deletes or changes purchase orders and blanket purchase orders, a record of these document changes must automatically be maintained. The configuration should not impact performance. You need to configure Business Central to automatically record the changes. Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Enable archiving of orders. Correct Answer
Open the Sales & Receivables Setup page.
Open the Purchases & Payables Setup page. Correct Answer
Activate the change log.
Enable archiving of blanket orders. Correct Answer

Key Takeaways

The question tests where purchase order archiving is configured and how to avoid the change log's performance overhead; the trap is choosing D because it records changes but violates the no-performance-impact constraint.

In Dynamics 365 Business Central, purchase order and blanket purchase order archiving is enabled from the Purchases & Payables Setup page, not by activating the change log. This page confirms the three required actions (A, C, E) for automatically recording document changes without impacting performance.

Common mistake: Choosing D (Activate the change log) because it sounds like the direct way to record document changes, but change logging adds performance overhead and the question explicitly forbids impact.

Expert Analysis

Why the Answer Is Correct

In Dynamics 365 Business Central, document archiving for purchasing is configured from the Purchases & Payables Setup page (C). That page contains the Archive Purchase Orders field (A) and the Archive Blanket Purchase Orders field (E), and when these are enabled the system automatically stores archived versions when purchase orders or blanket purchase orders are changed or deleted. This satisfies the requirement to maintain a record of document changes while avoiding the performance overhead that change logging introduces. The question asks for three actions, and A, C, and E together form the complete setup path.

Why the Other Options Are Wrong

B is wrong because Sales & Receivables Setup controls sales-side archiving, not purchasing documents. D is the trap: activating the change log does record field-level changes, but Microsoft warns that change logging can affect performance, and the scenario explicitly states the configuration should not impact performance. For this scenario, archiving already provides the required document-change record without that cost, so adding the change log is unnecessary and harmful to the stated constraint.

Community Comment Notes

papershaped, the highest-liked voter, explains that C is simply where you navigate to perform A and E, and directly addresses the distractor by asking "why not the change log? in the question, it says this should not impact performance". ivanrlg chose ACD instead and gave a reasonable-sounding explanation that archiving plus the change log records changes, but that answer misses E for blanket orders and ignores the performance warning. The wider learner vote strongly favors ACE, though the deciding factor is the question's performance constraint and the standard Business Central archiving setup.

Official Reference

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/across-log-changes

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Exam Strategy

Use the performance constraint as an elimination filter: any option that activates change logging is suspect in Business Central scenarios. Then verify the per-document archiving toggles on Purchases & Payables Setup.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is activating the change log (D) wrong for purchase order changes?

The change log records field-level changes, but Microsoft notes it can affect performance, and the scenario requires no performance impact. Archiving already captures the needed document versions.

Where do I enable archiving for purchase orders and blanket purchase orders?

Open the Purchases & Payables Setup page and turn on both Archive Purchase Orders (A) and Archive Blanket Purchase Orders (E).

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Community Votes

ACE

80%

ACD

20%

80% of anonymous learners picked answer ACE. Votes are pick records left by other test-takers — they are not the verified answer.

Discussion 3 contributions

Compiled from public community threads and reader submissions, lightly edited for clarity. Handles and vote tallies are shown as recorded, and comments reflect the views of individual contributors.

From public community threads 3

papershaped 👍 8

C. Open Purchases & Payables Setup page: To navigate to Purchase & Pay setup in order to do A and E A. Enable archiving of orders (as required in question) E. Enable archiving of blanket orders (as required in question) Ok, the other may ask, why not the change log? in the question, it says this should not impact performance, which by enabling ChangeLogs, you will: See 3rd paragraph of this link that says "Tracking changes can impact performance [...]" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-ca/dynamics365/business-central/across-log-changes
ivanrlg 👍 2

A. Enable archiving of orders. - This action allows the system to keep a record of orders that have been deleted or changed, ensuring that there is a historical record of these transactions. C. Open the Purchases & Payables Setup page. - This step is necessary because the settings related to purchasing, such as archiving of purchase orders and blanket purchase orders, are configured in the Purchases & Payables Setup area of Business Central. D. Activate the change log. - By activating the change log, you enable Business Central to track and record changes made to the data, including modifications and deletions of purchase orders and blanket purchase orders. This provides a comprehensive audit trail of the changes without impacting the system’s performance.
TO6ixjb 👍 1

C, A, D Purchases and AP Setup

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