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Item Purchasing/Selling Notes/Descriptions?

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Hello. We've recently migrated to Business Central.

In our old software we had something called SELL-DESCRIPTION and BUY-DESCRIPTION.

When purchasing an item, it would automatically use the SELL-DESCRIPTION on the line item. We could put all kinds of important information and reminders for the vendor to ensure they packaged the item appropriately, used the correct color paper, and all kinds of other instructions. On the other hand, if we were selling the item, it would NOT use the BUY-DESCRIPTION, but would instead use the SELL-DESCRIPTION which was more appropriate for the customer.

Is there anything like this in Business Central?

I've found the EXTENDED TEXT feature, but that is a manual process that I have to run for Every. Single. Line. Item. This is not useful when I have dozens or hundreds of line items!

As for the DESCRIPTION field on the Item Card, it has a character limit! We can't even add much information to it.

I'm hoping Business Central has a solution for this.

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    Hi

    I think the Extended Text is your best option since you can add lots of comment and feedback and in addition you can turn it off for SO. 

    My quick question is have you tried to turn on "Automatic Ext. Text" in item card. Then in Code turn off Sales/Service. Also, only create one code for each item. 

    Please try it and create PO and see if BC automatically add all the info or not. 

    Thanks 

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