Supplier Instance Fields

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Overview

Supplier Instance Fields are fields that can be assigned to Vendor Items as they are assigned to an Object. These fields are different than Vendor Item attributes. Attributes are assigned to the entire vendor item; instance fields are fields that are assigned to the association of a supplier item to another object. Thus, if a vendor item is assigned to multiple database objects, the instance fields can have different values for each assignment.

You can define up to 8 different instance fields. Fields enabled/defined on this page will be available when adding/editing Vendor items when they are associated to objects (Vendor Items page).

Enabling Fields

To enable a field, click the Enable checkbox and specify a field name in the Name column:

When defining the field, you can define the field value type to be either User Edit or Pick List:

Once the fields are defined, click the Save toolbar button.

Field Values

For Pick List fields, you can define the field values by clicking the Set Values hyperlink. This will launch the Field Values panel:

To add values, type the new value in the Values field and then click the Add button.

Note: you can specify multiple values to be added at once using a semi-colon as a delimiter. You can remove and change the order using the Remove, Move Up, and Move Down button. You can sort the list alphabetically by clicking the Sort button.

Once the desired changes are made, click the Update button to save the changes.

Disabling Fields

To disable a field, uncheck the Enable checkbox.