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Posted on by SL-06100539-0 13
Hi,
 
 
Why D365 does not have its "Unit of Measurement" properly named as per the correct category?
Instead of just saying "Unit" why they are not named as "Sales UoM", "Purchase UoM", "Inventory UoM" and "BOM UoM". 
 
Because of this it's difficult to identity the correct UoM unless someone goes inside the item, which is loss of time. 
Many D365 users are struggling with this issue. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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    VaHiX 4,352 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
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  • Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 230,994 Most Valuable Professional on at
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    The question is what the suggestion will be. Renaming the table field is impossible, because the requested label depends on data context, while a field label is fixed when defining the field.
     
    In this case, we're talking about personalization, therefore the requirement could be "When adding a data source field to a form via personalization, I want to change the label to a custom value". But it's not as simple as saying that I want to rename Unit from Invent module parameters (2) to Inventory unit, because it wouldn't cover translation to other languages. You could either use a label defined by developers or are the user to provide translation to all languages used by the company. It's all possible to do, but it's not as simply as saying that Microsoft should rename a field.
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    BillurSamdancioglu 16,755 Most Valuable Professional on at
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    You may use "Ideas Portal" to offer the change to Mİcrosoft.
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    Martin Dráb 230,994 Most Valuable Professional on at
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    All right, it's not a customization; it's your own personalization. But the question about the source of data is still relevant. In fact, understanding where the fields come from can answer your question.
     
    You've apparently added these three fields:
     

     
    Notice that they come from the same table (Inventory module parameters). Therefore it's a single field; the data you see just come from different records of Inventory module parameters table. The field is called Unit; whether it's a purchase, sales or inventory unit depends on other data (namely InventTableModule.ModuleType field).
     
    In your case, you should use a customization to create form controls mapped to these fields and change field label to labels you want in the context where you're using these three instances of InventTableModule.UnitId field.
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    SL-06100539-0 13 on at
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    Hi Friends,
     
    This is not a customization; I have just added the details to the overview page.
    And we don't want to use advance filter.
     
    Question is why Microsoft has not named the fields with clear description like other ERPs. 
    This should be standard. 
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    Martin Dráb 230,994 Most Valuable Professional on at
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    Moved from D365 general forum to D365 Finance forum, because it seems to be about F&O and not about D365 in general.
     
    What is the source of these fields? Isn't it a customization where a developer displayed units from default order settings but didn't set the labels that you suggest? If so, you need to get your customization fixed.
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