Several suggestions for various changes

[Davide]

@loglow

When adding a new Production Order , it should be possible to select an existing Inventory Kit instead of only being able to manually enter a new BOM from scratch. This is nearly a deal-breaker for me, since I regularly have BOMs with dozens of items that are assembled in-house.

I would say, since inventory kit is something linked only to sales, it would be better to have a new tool names for example production kit. Maybe with the possibility to create an inventory kit from a production kit and vice versa.

@loglow

When using the Batch Create or Batch Update features, it should be possible to reference other objects by their names instead of only by their long (and awkward) alphanumeric keys. I think it would be acceptable to only support exact name matches in this case, and not worry about matching partial or similar names.

This have been promised by @lubos but it’s not an easy thing. If you know something about relational databases you know it’s almost impossible. I think that’s why it’s still in the ideas section

@loglow

Similarly, when using the Batch Create or Batch Update features, column headers that contain Custom Fields should be labeled using the exact display name of the field, instead of the field’s (indecipherable) alphanumeric key.

Easier but with the same issues of the above topic. Maybe with a two lines header or a XML notation inside the cell he can write both the key and the name. I support this idea.

@loglow

When creating an Inventory Kit or Production Order , it should be possible to add more than one new line at a time (5x, 10x, 20x) like it is when creating a new Purchase Invoice or in various other creation forms.

Nice idea

@loglow

When creating any new item that can have multiple lines (eg. a Receipt , Sales Invoice , Production Order , or many others) it should be possible to Batch Create lines using an interface that’s similar to the existing batch tools. This would make it much easier to create new multi-line items using an external spreadsheet, without the need to awkwardly deal with multiple values within cells separated by newlines, as is the case now.

I was thinking the same thing just a few days ago!

@loglow

Allow the creation of Custom Fields for line items on Receipts and Payments , much like they can already be created for line items on Sales Invoices (among others).

Also enable to have at least a few categories in the inline custom fields. Text, numeric and drop-down.