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Why do codes have to be upper case?

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Why do Customer Code & Item Code have to be upper case? 

Mixed case (even lower case) is so much more readable & easier to spot mistakes.

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    Nitin Verma Profile Picture
    Nitin Verma 21,023 Moderator on at
    RE: Why do codes have to be upper case?

    Hi,

    Please refer the below link

    learn.microsoft.com/.../code-data-type

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    turquoise 10 on at
    RE: Why do codes have to be upper case?

    Hi Nitin, thanks for your answer.

    Looking up "Code Data type", it seems to say that it supports Unicode, which should allow for lower case too?  We are moving from another ERP to BC, and it seems like a backwards step to have to have uppercase codes.   Our mixed case codes are so much easier to read.

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    Nitin Verma Profile Picture
    Nitin Verma 21,023 Moderator on at
    RE: Why do codes have to be upper case?

    Hi,

    In the standard system most of the case all the No. field belongs to Code Data type, which enhance this capabilities and has the alphanumeric values and store the uppercase values along with the numbers.

    While Text type fields like Description has a regular text value.

    Thanks.

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