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Purchase Order Invoices Attachments Not Showing

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Hello, We are a bit confused on attachments flowing to documents in BC. When we create a purchase order we attach the PO we get from the vendor. With some vendors we apply a prepayment to the PO and post that. However in doing so the attached document does not flow into the posted prepayment invoice. When we create regular invoices for the purchase orders it also does not grab the document automatically?

Is there a setting somewhere for invoices for grabbing the documents when posting?

We also see the "flow to purchase trx" column is not checked off but it is greyed out for anything we attach to the purchase order.

What are we missing?

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Gerardo Rentería Ga... 25,157 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi You can check this feature. I hope it helps you.

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Vahid Ghafarpour 12,090 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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When the "flow to purchase trx" column is grayed out, it means that the attachment flow is not enabled for the specific record type (e.g., POs).

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YUN ZHU 95,331 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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As far as I know, this setting is set on master data, such as Vendor, Item. It cannot be enabled on Purchase Documents.

More details: https://yzhums.com/40824/

Hope this helps.

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ZHU

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Yi Yong 2,555 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hello,

The purpose of 'Flow to Purch. Trx' is to copy the vendor's attachment to newly created purchase documents.

You can customize the function to copy the PO attachments to the Posted Purchase Invoice for partial invoiced PO.
Only when the PO is fully invoiced, then the PO attachments will flow to the Posted Purchase Invoice.

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Jun Wang 8,200 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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I tested by posting a regular purchase order, the attached document flew through . You could try to install a 3rd party extension for attachment, which may help you. There are some free good ones on BC marketplace.

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Gauravsingh.rajput@... 49 on at

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Hi, This flow to transaction is enable when attachment is added on vendor master then this boolean is true & in this case it will flow to posted purchase invoice. But if you directly attach in purchase order it will not flow to purchase invoice.

We have done solution for it on posted purchase invoice by creating page which will also show multiple attachment. Lets us know if you need any help reach out to us on

gaurav.rajput@vserve.co.in

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