RE: Item descriptions

I didn't say before. I just said I would love to have more characters in
the item description.
  We have abbreviations (and an abbreviation list to follow) in order to
get the item description to be meaningful. 
We would love to be able to key in all the characters and have that
description print on reports, MO's, invoices, --everywhere the
description is called out.  In other words, it's not additional
information--it IS the information.  But since Mapics only allows the 30
characters--it would be considered additional information.
We have created multiple instances of the exact same part because our
descriptions were not keyed the way they "should" have been if following
the abbreviation list.

Item comments in COM would be a help for some of the documents, and at
least they would be centrally located--not an external file.

Thanks,
Teresa

-----Original Message-----
From: mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Vidal
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 4:15 PM
To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion
Subject: RE: Item descriptions

"So Peter, you had to maintain the Mapics code to get the reports to
print 
your descriptions?  Creating the file is the easy part--getting MAPICS
to 
see it is the hard part.  Any user exits I'm not aware of? Thanks"

Oh, no.  If we have to list items or something like that , we do not use

MAPICS' report versions.  However, I want to ask you (maybe you
explained 
it before, I am sorry) but: under which circumstances you want this 
additional information to be used?


Peter Vidal 
PALL Corporation / SR Programmer Analyst, IT Development Group
10540 Ridge Rd., Ste 203, New Port Richey, FL 34654-5111
http://www.pall.com

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