Losing Part Inv #s In Cut & Paste?

[a&eauto]

Hello,
My shop recently updated to the 6.4 SE Platform, which has been a nice improvement aside from one small impediment that we've encountered. Upon cutting and pasting part items that have an invoice number entered, we are noticing that the invoice number line on the newly-pasted part is blank. Is there any way of rectifying this issue? Thank you in advance!

[Rich]

yes they do, and i don't like it. I am sure Mitchell knows. What I do when i have to C&P is to type the invoice # behind the part description. then you have it. It will also go away if you move the parts to a revision. or mess up, put the invoice on a part in a revision and then transfer it.

[timbre4]

Welcome to the forum and thanks for your question.

Actually this has been true ever since the Ref / INV# has existed. The current logic is that a user could possibly cut or copy a part line with INV # specific to that Repair Order / PO and paste it into a different Repair Order and create false data. Microsoft Windows copy & paste functions is not smart enough to know if pasting into the same document or if pasting elsewhere so the programming would error on the side of caution to not allow creation of such a situation.

This has been asked about several times before; I believe this relationship between the vendor invoice and related PO parts has to be accomplished another way so that the situation above would not be necessary. Stay tuned