In previous version of Accpac - V5.4 and prior from memory you used to be able to have a hyphen a part of your item number. You can no longer do this and it is a real pain for clients who have their item numbers dictated from suppliers etc and now can't.
Can we have the system behave the way it used to please.
by: Kerry J. | over a year ago | Financial Management
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You need to setup an Item Structure with the hyphens specified, then you can specify the Item Number to have that structure and the hyphens will be automatically included.
yes that is ideally how it is supposed to work but you run into problems when the client wants to use their vendors item number eg their business is distributing somebody else's product so you are at their mercy. It does make a lot of sense to do this as then everything matches from supplier to customer. You also run into problems for some clients who have diverse product lines in trying to live within 10 segments in I/C or for the smaller clients on 100 living with only 4 segments.
In short it used to work fine so lets have it back the way it used to work.
Why don't you make use of IC Manafacturer codes and Customer Codes in IC for those items that has hyphens?
Look at IC Setup, Options, Items, Separators. You can set Hyphen (-) to No then you can use it in your item numbers.