In Business Central, sales and purchase documents have lines and lines can be of different types:
- comment line: ” “
- “G/L Account”
- “Item”
- “Resource”
- “Fixed Asset”
- “Charge (Item)”
When editing a sales line document, a user would have to pick one of these values.
With BC 2021 wave 2, customers can default the value of line type to a value that is used most often.
E.g. If an end-user has sales documents in which the Resource line types is very frequent, they could set the “Default Line Type” to “Resource” in “Sales & Receivables” page:
Let’s see it in action!
From the get-go, as soon as we open a new Sales Quote, we can see that the lines have “Resource” as line type:
If you manually change the Type to a different value, e.g. “G/L Account”, the subsequent lines are taking the default from the line above:
Similar to sales documents, purchase documents have a default line type.
End-users can set up their purchase line default type in “Purchase & Payables Setup” page:
It is also possible to use a different line type, for example “Tutor”.
An AL developer would need to expand the “Sales Line Type” enum to include the new value:
enumextension 50100 SalesLineTypeWithTutorExt extends "Sales Line Type"
{
value(50100; Tutor)
{
Caption = 'Tutor';
}
}Deploying the extended enum would make possible to choose the new enum value:
And the sales documents would use the new line type as default:
Of course, there is more custom code to write to make the new enum usable in the documents, but about that in a future blog.
