Apply New Order to Document Lines

Lists are great, right? We create and use lists in almost every aspects of our lives. List of pros & cons, ingredients for birthday cake, list of account balances… but – in every list only one item can be the first. You could claim that it doesn’t matter – after all, when baking a cake the flour and eggs are equally important regardless their position in the list. That might be the case with recipes, but in many other cases the sequence of items in a list is highly significant. For example, when creating marketing documents and you want to emphasize certain items. Could be that you created the document in the required sequence right from the start, but then, an item was added or replaced and new sequence was needed. In such cases, the Web Client for SAP Business One enables you to move document lines and re-position them as needed:

While in Edit mode, just select the line you want to re-position, and use the Up or Down arrow buttons to move it to the required place. This option is supported for Sales Quotations, Sales Orders, Purchase Quotations and Purchase Orders.

Note that in all other documents, these buttons are available while in “Create” mode. You can change the sequence of lines before adding the document:

Available in the Web Client for SAP Business One 10.0 FP 2111 and SAP Business One 10.0, version for SAP HANA FP 2111. This tip and all the other tips are available on the Tip of the week community page. You can also visit the Implementation Arena for useful implementation tips.