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# BC Friday Tips #44 Changing Production Order Status

[Read the post](https://thatnavguy.com/blog/2025/bc-friday-tips-44-changing-production-order-status/) · That NAV Guy (Teddy Herryanto, MVP) · 2025-08-22 · 94 words · tier community · reviewed (checked by Opus)

> When a Production Order status changes in Business Central, the system inserts a new record and deletes the old one rather than modifying it. Understanding this behavior helps avoid errors when subscribing to Insert, Modify, or Delete triggers on Production Orders.

## Key points

- Changing Production Order status creates a new record and removes the old one instead of updating the existing record
- This behavior occurs in the TransProdOrder procedure in codeunit 5407
- Subscriptions to Insert, Modify, or Delete triggers on Production Orders may encounter unexpected results without awareness of this mechanism
- Extra trigger logic can cause errors if not accounting for this record replacement pattern

## Quotes

- "You can see this in the TransProdOrder procedure inside codeunit 5407 "Prod. Order Status Management"." (Points developers to the exact location in the codebase where this behavior is implemented)

## AL objects mentioned

As named in the post. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

- [codeunit 5407 "Prod. Order Status Management"](../../objects/codeunit/5407.md)

## Context

- Features: Production Order status changes, record insertion and deletion

Source: That NAV Guy, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.