How to adjust inventory quantities programmatically by using the Small Business Accounting Software Development Kit together with the IInventoryAdjustment interface (920193)

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The following code creates one inventory adjustment that decreases quantities for two items in the Northwind Traders company.

Note Northwind Traders is the fictitious company that is used for demonstration in Small Business Accounting.

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ISmallBusinessInstance iSbi = // The iSbi variable is instantiated here.

IFinancialAccount ifa = (IFinancialAccount) GetAccountByName(iSbi.FinancialAccounts, "Other Expenses");

IInventoryAdjustment ia = iSbi.CreateInventoryAdjustment();
ia.FinancialDateTime = DateTime.Now.AddDays(2);
ia.FinancialAccount = ifa;

// The following line retrieves the first item for which you want to adjust the quantity.
IInventoryItemAccount item1 = (IInventoryItemAccount) GetAccountByName(iSbi.ItemAccounts, "Hockey Stick");

// The following line creates an array of adjustment lines that has two elements.
IInventoryAdjustmentLine[] lines = new IInventoryAdjustmentLine[2];

lines[0] = ia.CreateInventoryAdjustmentLine();
lines[0].InventoryItemAccount = item1;
lines[0].AdjustedQuantity = -3;

// The following line retrieves the second item for which you want to adjust the quantity.
IInventoryItemAccount item2 = (IInventoryItemAccount) GetAccountByName(iSbi.ItemAccounts, "Hook");

lines[1] = ia.CreateInventoryAdjustmentLine();
lines[1].InventoryItemAccount = item2;
lines[1].AdjustedQuantity = -1;

// Persist the inventory adjustment to the database.
ia.Save();


static IAccount GetAccountByName(IBaseMasterView view, string acctName)
{
	IAccount account = null;
	DataRow row = null;

	if (view != null)
	{
		DataView dv = view.DataView;

		// Verify that there is a Name column, or a run-time exception occurs.
		if (dv.Table.Columns.Contains("Name"))
		{
			dv.RowFilter = String.Format("Name='{0}'", acctName);
		}
		// The IJobAccount does not have a Name column. Therefore, you must search by using JobName.
		else if (dv.Table.Columns.Contains("JobName"))
		{
			dv.RowFilter = String.Format("JobName='{0}'", acctName);
		}
		
		// Verify that there is a ModifiedDateTime column, or a run-time exception occurs.
		if (dv.Table.Columns.Contains("ModifiedDateTime"))
		{
			dv.Sort = "ModifiedDateTime DESC";
		}
    
		// If there is more than one row, obtain the first row.
		if (dv.Count > 0)
		{
			row = dv[0].Row;
		}
	}

	if (row != null)
	{
		account = (IAccount) view.GetByDataRow(row);
	}

	return account;
}