“Replacement Product” as a real field in the Catalog
Molly Beacom
This field would allow you to update items in the catalog that have been labeled as unapproved or discontinued, with a specifically approved alternative. After checking out a project, what are people supposed to do with the list of items identified as unapproved or discontinued? There's no clean or intuitive way for someone to easily get those items swapped out of their project.
Everything just gets real messy, real fast, because there is no way to link that kind of information. It doesn't make sense for pricing to be the only real info that sync's, especially when there are so many other fields that can also be updated.
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Kevin Frye
Molly Beacom There is a feature that works exactly as you want. Alternates do this when you use the Replace feature. I performed a quick test to make sure. I added a part to a project, an "ACME ABC1." Then I opened this item in the Catalog, added the "ACME ABC2" as an Alternate and marked the ABC1 as Unapproved. When opening the project and getting the prompt for an Unapproved item, I selected the ABC1, chose Replace -> Product, and the window that opened ran a query against "Alternates" for the ABC1 and the ABC2 was listed for replacement. See my image below for further details.