1.7 Alpha - Suppliers|Deliveries|New not defaulting supplier/location
As you can see from the screen shot below, I have A-Pharm Medical as the supplier and EIAH as the stock location on the Suppliers|Deliveries screen.
When I press the NEW button to make a new order, I have to re-enter these. They should default to those currently selected.
Playing with the system, there appear to two different lots of 'current supplier' - that for the Information, Documents, Charges, Payments and Accounts workspaces, and that for the Orders & Deliveries workspaces.
Is this a bug or intentional?
With more playing - I am certain that this is a bug. I had Advanced Vet Supplies set as the current supplier on the supplier Info screen and I had A-Pharm Medical & EIAH set as the current supplier/location on the Orders screen as show in the top snippet below. I switched to the Deliveries screen - this stayed at A-pharm/EIAH. I then pressed New to create a new delivery - and as you can see the supplier switched to Advanced Vet Supplies and it forgot the location.
Recommendation - there should be only one supplier remembered as the current supplier, and the current stock location should also be remembered.
Regards, Tim G
Re: 1.7 Alpha - Suppliers|Deliveries|New not defaulting ...
If I remember correctly, this was because it was assumed that you'd be creating orders and deliveries for different suppliers each time. If it defaulted to the current supplier, you would have to select the name, delete it, and then select the correct supplier.
-Tim
Re: 1.7 Alpha - Suppliers|Deliveries|New not defaulting ...
OK - I can appreciate that - ie when you do a New order you have to fill in both.
However, having done that and created the order, should not the current supplier be updated to the one you just ordered from?
If I do New Customer, then having created the customer, the one I created becomes the current customer.
I can understand the 'when you create a new order you need to select the supplier'. However, I see downside is this supplier becoming the current supplier for all the other supplier screens. That it I cannot see the logic in the the system saying 'yes I know the order you just placed was to Bloggs suppliers, but if you want to examine Blogg's information, accounts, documents etc then you are going to have to select Bloggs as the current supplier'.
Regards, Tim G