The sales line already exists...

yuppicide

Using Navision 3.10..

I have a semi-difficult customer.. they want us to enter the items on Sales Order in order of material.. ie: cotton, rayon, knit, etc. They're an international customer and maybe they do this for customs.. not sure.

So, let's say I have entered 10 items on a Sales Order. I put them in the correct order the customer wanted, but I messed up two items. I want to delete those two lines and re-add them elsewhere.

Sometimes it will not let me do this.. it will say "The sales line already exists.", but it never has a problem adding it at the very end of my order.

Is there some place I should go looking for a coding error or am I taking on too much here?

DenSter

The problem is autosplitkey. That needs the order of the sales lines to be in the primary key order. You probably have the lines in a different order.

Let's say you have an order with items Z1, Z2 and Z3 (which would have line numbers 10000, 20000 and 30000). Now you add Item A1 to the end of the order. Autosplitkey creates the new line with line number 40000, and when the line is inserted into the database, the form reshuffles the lines, and line 40000 is actually at the top of the lines, because its item number starts with an A. Now you go to the end of the order, and you enter another item. Autosplitkey will use number 40000 again, and that's when you get the error that line 40000 already exists.

What you should do is keep the lines for data entry at the primary key, and only change the sort order on the report.

DaveT

Hi,

How are you inserting the line - using the normal F3 between lines?

Check that the subform for entering the lines is set for AutoSplitKey. Turn on the debugger and look to see where the error is being generated from and this will point you in the direction of the code causing the problem