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title: "Progress registration"
slug: "bc-progress-registration"
description: "Optimize production order posting with automated Progress Registration, ensuring efficient tracking and management of operations and resource tasks."
updated: 2026-06-25T09:59:10Z
published: 2026-06-25T09:59:10Z
canonical: "docs.staedean.com/bc-progress-registration"
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# Progress registration

The purpose of this functionality is to limit the amount of time posting in a production order. In situations with automated (CNC) operations, it must be possible to automatically post operations, triggered from a **Point of Completion**.

Progress Registration delivers easier registration and better insight into the progress of production orders by automatically posting normative hours, defining points of completion, and providing task-based progress registration.

## Main settings in Manufacturing Setup

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Action if Point of Completion | Select an action to execute when the point of completion is reached. **Blank**: no option selected. **Load Preceding Operations Automatically**: the previous operation is automatically inserted the previous operation into the output journal. **Load Preceding Operations after User Confirmation**: user confirmation is required to insert the previous operation into the output journal. |
| Base Usage on Normative Quantities | When selected, usage is calculated on normative quantity and time as specified in the routing. Additional setup is required as described below. |

## Create resource tasks for points of completion

When an operation is marked as **Point of Completion**, a resource task must exist to start and stop:

1. [Set the method of resource task creation in the Resource Task setup, tab Production Orders](/business-central/docs/bc-resource-task-setup).
2. Mark operations in the routing as **Point of Completion**.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note** This must be done in the routing because resource tasks are created when the production order is refreshed, or the status changes from **Firm Planned** to **Released**.

## Set machine and work centers as Post Normative

Use the **Post as Normative** setting on the machine or work center as the default setting for that center. When the production order is refreshed, or the status changes from **Firm Planned** to **Released**, this setting is copied to the production order routing lines. In the production order routing line, you can override the setting by switching it off.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note** Operations cannot be both **Point of Completion** and **Post Normative**. Selecting **Point of Completion** clears **Post Normative**. Selecting **Post Normative** when **Point of Completion** is set produces an error.

## Posting rules

The best practice for Progress Registration is to use the resource task **Start/Stop** feature in combination with the **Machine Time** setting on the machine or work center card.

1. When an operator starts a resource task for an operation marked as **Point of Completion**, and that operation specifies a machine or work center with the **Machine Time** setting as **Setup**, **Run Time**, or **Both**, an open entry is created in the **Time Input Line Worksheet** for the resource time, and an open entry in the **Time Output Worksheet** for the machine time.
2. When an operator stops a resource task for an operation marked as **Point of Completion**, and that operation specifies a machine or work center with the **Machine Time** setting as **Setup**, **Run Time**, or **Both**, the open entries are set to **Completed** in the **Time Input Line Worksheet** and the **Time Output Worksheet**.
3. From each of these worksheets, completed entries can be registered or posted respectively.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> - Registering and posting can be automated through the **Project Queue** with processing reports: **IEMRM Process Time Input Line** and **IEMMFG Process Time Output**.
> - Post Normative functionality also works through the **Output Journal**, based on the setting in **Manufacturing Setup**. When a line for a **Point of Completion** operation is inserted, **Post Normative** operations are inserted automatically or after a confirmation. When output lines for the production order already exist, posting from the **Time Output Worksheet** is blocked.

## Related

- [Use resources in manufacturing](/bc-use-resources-in-manufacturing.md)
- [Manufacturing integration](/bc-manufacturing-integration-iem.md)