• From: Malta
  • Registered: 04/06/2012
  • Posts: 123

Topic: Information about Items

When adding an Item in the "Items and Inventory" section, the first three fields are:
Item Code; Name; and Description

The Description is capable of holding a lot of information as it is saved in a tinytext field in the database.
However, I cannot find where this information is used in FrontAccounting. When issuing an invoice or a sales order, only the field called Name is used.

My questions are:
1. Is there a place where this information is shown (apart from the Items form)?
2. How difficult would it be to include this information in Quotations and Invoices?

TIA
Carmelo

  • joe
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  • Registered: 03/15/2007
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Re: Information about Items

The description is only for internel use. I am not in office right now. Isn't the name field about 200 chars long?

Joe

  • From: Malta
  • Registered: 04/06/2012
  • Posts: 123

Re: Information about Items

Thanks Joe.
Yes, the name field is 200 characters long, which is good for many things. But when would like to put in a description of a computer system, 200 characters are not enough.
The Description field with its support for many more characters is more suitable in such cases.

But now I know and I will try to implement a different approach.

thanks again
Carmelo