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Vendor Status Field disabled in Vendor Maintenance card

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Hi,

Does anyone encountered this already : we have several Employee Vendor cards in Purchasing where the Status pull-down list is greyed out (disabled). Some are still showing 'Active', some were set 'Inactive' in the past thru the Employee Maintenance form. As we pay our employee's expenses thru GP with Project Accounting, every time you create a new employee card, a new Vendor card is created with the same ID.

Now this is not the first time that our AP/AR clerk has to re-activate an employee to do some payables transactions (i.e. employee came back from a LTD or a former employee needs to have some refunds on a credit card from business expenses).

The only way I found so far to temporarily re-enable such Vendor ID was to alter the PM00200 Vendor Mstr table and change the VENDSTTS field to 1 (Active). Once the transaction is done, I set it back to 2 (Inactive).

Can someone shed some light on this ? maybe there are some linked information with another piece that I'm missing ? I couldn't find anything about this in the Purchasing Manual.

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  • Frank Hamelly | MVP, MCP, CSA Profile Picture
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    RE: Vendor Status Field disabled in Vendor Maintenance card

    Ahhhh, I didn't realize PA was part of the mix.  I thought we were just looking at HR/PR and PM.

    Thanks for the clarification!  

    Frank

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    Beat Bucher  GP Geek  GPUG All Star Profile Picture
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    RE: Vendor Status Field disabled in Vendor Maintenance card

    Frank,

    Microsoft logged a bug report about this problem : Bug 72422:Vendor not updated properly from Canadian Payroll employee window to Vendor Maintenance window when Files Employee Expense option is marked in PA Employee

    Let's hope it gets fixed sometimes soon. I've not checked it this occurs in GP2013 as well, since I don't have yet migrated.

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    Beat Bucher  GP Geek  GPUG All Star Profile Picture
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    RE: Vendor Status Field disabled in Vendor Maintenance card

    Frank,

    I found out the bug that is causing the discrepancy... We're using the Canadian Payroll module in our main company... When the Employee gets set 'inactive' thru the HR Employee Maintenance Card, then the corresponding Vendor card gets inactivated as well... If you re-activate the Employee thru the same HR Employee Maintenance screen, the Vendor card gets re-activated as well.. Now if you inactivate or activate the Employee thru the Canadian Payroll maintenance form, that is not going to update the status in the Vendor card... et voilà another bug that needs to be fixed by Microsoft :-).

    See you in Atlanta !

  • Beat Bucher  GP Geek  GPUG All Star Profile Picture
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    RE: Vendor Status Field disabled in Vendor Maintenance card

    Hi Frank,

    Yes it can happen :-), sometimes even my excellent digging skills are not able to retrieve the answer from the Weird Wild Web...

    I don't think that we have custom code in place for this purpose, tough I could be wrong.. I'd rather think is normal behavior of GP when you have Project Accounting enabled and create a new Employee Card with the check-box "Files Employee Expense" activated under the PA Employee Project options..

    Indeed I made some tests on my TEST bed system and created a new Employee Card, activated the option for Project Employee Expenses and the Vendor card was automatigically created in Purchasing. It is true that the card created this way does not allow for any changes in the Status.. the field is always 'grayed' out and disabled. So it looks like we're here facing a bug that does not re-activate the Vendor Card when the employee gets inactivate in the HR/PR module and then activated back to life.

    However, I realized that someone in the past (partner ?) created an extender window in the Vendor Maintenance card that pops-up every time you want to do some changes in a vendor card. Could this be the culprit ? don't know ... would have to disable that Extender form and redo some tests..

    I'll definitely see you at Convergence in 10 days :-) . In the mean time have a great day.

  • Frank Hamelly | MVP, MCP, CSA Profile Picture
    46,615 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    RE: Vendor Status Field disabled in Vendor Maintenance card

    Hi Beat, I'm not sure I've ever seen you ask a question in the forum.  You're usually answering them!

    Do you have some custom code in place that auto-creates the employee's Vendor record?  I don't think that's standard GP and would be the first place I'd look.

    See you at Convergence?

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