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Was there ever a feature where adding a Common Item No. copies the item to the other companies?

Out of curiosity, my contact has told me that whenever he has entered a Common Item No. field with a value, there would be an equivalent SKU on another company already created automatically somehow by a means built into Business Central.

Was there such a feature like this in Business Central?

If so, what is the option to configure that can toggle this feature?
My contact recalled that it was once working in the past where if you enter ITEMA into the item card's Common Item No. field within CompanyA as ITEMA would create another ITEMA within CompanyB and this is not happening anymore.

Sounds like a development/extension.

in the old nav days, you can "share" tables data across companies in the database. as an example, if you "share" the item table, the companies in the database has the same items each, with different inventory because you are sharin gthe item table, not the item ledger entry table.

Now, in BC times, we have the DataPerCompany options that applies to tables only. You need to extend a table with an extension and declare DataPerCompany = false for the extended table but you need to force table sync using that switch in the extension launch.json.

learn.microsoft.com/.../devenv-datapercompany-property

Now, lets analyze this

Its good to share data across companies? if you have many companies and you make intercompany purchases/sales betwen them, maybe its a good idea.

You only have some common items? well, maybe you can use rapidstart packages ot download/upload that filtered info that you wanna share instead the whole item catalogue.

In the old days, sometimes we have problems restoring the database when we use this functions, so, be careful, microsoft allows this change and we can think they support those operations but, remember, its microsoft, sometimes its better to avoid play with fire and use an approved "sharing data between companies" extension.

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