RE: Customer Open Orders Amount

[Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Go into any order header screen, look down near bottom for ORDER STATUS,
put cursor there and explore F4 F1 to get at list of all the status codes
available, print it.  Also check the BPCS_L archives ... someone shared the
chart not so long ago.  It can also be extracted from BPCSDOC but I not
remember exactly where.  If you on 405 CD, the source code for help text is
in QPNLSRC file of BPCS405CDS (S for Source) - I often find it helpful to
access HELP without running the actual program that the HELP is for.

Depending on your BPCS version (we 405 CD), BPCS does a very poor job of
getting rid of old orders that we are done with.  I wrote a program to
delete orders in which
    * Nothing left to ship on any order line.
    * Oldest date of activity 2 years old
    * I had asked my accounting department about how long they needed this
kind of data for customers that are extremely slow to pay, but it turned
out that customer service said they happy with 2 years of shipping history,
I could delete anything older, and no other corporate department disagreed
with that plan.
You should NOT delete individual order lines we are done with, because that
can corrupt access to the rest of the order.

>Is there a code on the order to indicate that it is still open?

Al Macintyre
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