Multiple contacts per vendor?

sneha

Hi,

Can we create multiple contacts per vendor? I have an idea on how to create one contact per vendor and link it to existing vendor.

ajaykt_2000

yes
we create multiple contacts per vendor and attach .

Create a contact and press contact tab and define custome/vendor/bank.

lally

sneha wrote:

Hi,

Can we create multiple contacts per vendor?

Do u want to assign multiple contacts In vendor card ?

If yes , then u need to do customization to get what you are asking.

DenSter

With standard NAV, you have one company type contact for the Vendor, and this can have an unlimited number of related contacts. It is already possible to define multiple contacts for Vendors.

pranavdeolekar

Hi,

When i m trying to link one contact to existing vendor who already have attached with the contact, it is giving me error attached here with.

For this case, I am using standard NAV Cronus India Database. where i have Vedor name Delhi post master. Vendor No. 10000 and contact no. CT000066. now I m trying to link that with another contact No. 20000 from contact card, I m getting the error attached here with.

I think we can not attach more than one contact to a perticular vendor.

Please explain if it is possible.

Regards,
Pranav

Luc_VanDyck

There can only be one Contact of type Company linked to a Vendor, Customer or Bank Account. You can have multiple Contacts of type Person linked to your Contact of type Company. So you can store multiple contacts to one Vendor, but only one can be of type Company. All the others are of type Person.

AdamRoue

Yes that is correct - the idea is the contact is unique to the vendor, therefore Joe Bloggs works for vendor 10000, you can find his contact details against the vendor - it would not (in most cases) be practical, that he also works for vendor 20000, even if he did he would (possibly) a different address and phone number, so the original record becomes redundant - you will need to create this again. Can you explain who your CT000066 is?

pranavdeolekar

AdamRoue wrote:

Can you explain who your CT000066 is?

Yes, sure.... it is the contact no. series on the contact card.

AdamRoue

pranavdeolekar wrote:

AdamRoue wrote:

Can you explain who your CT000066 is?

Yes, sure.... it is the contact no. series on the contact card.

That is not a "who" - I obviously know it is a number series - I mean can you explain why the same person works at different vendors?

Sog

AdamRoue wrote:

pranavdeolekar wrote:

AdamRoue wrote:

Can you explain who your CT000066 is?

Yes, sure.... it is the contact no. series on the contact card.

That is not a "who" - I obviously know it is a number series - I mean can you explain why the same person works at different vendors?

Vendor 1 is a daughter company of Vendor 2?

Luc_VanDyck

There is no way to store a relation between different companies in NAV. You can only add people to companies (in the contact card).

Alex_Chow

In the customer card, there's a field called Chain Name. You can use this to group sister companies together.

Luc_VanDyck

If you add a TableRelation to this field, and enlarge it to 20 characters that is.

kapil4dynamics

daughter company of Vendor 2

:?:

Kowa

I currently have a request too from one of our customers that they need a m:n relationship for contacts and business relations (one contact can work for multiple vendors in addition to the standard situation that one vendor has several contacts working for him). Has anyone done such a customization before (without rewriting most of the marketing module and the Outlook synchronization )?