In Sage X3, we recently had a requirement to generate custom product code based on the product category, specifications selected by the user, and to generate product description based on the product code.
Screen path:
Miscellaneous tables:
Development – > Miscellaneous tables – > Definition
Development – > Miscellaneous tables – > Data
Window:
Development -> Script Dictionary-> Windows ->OITM
Based on the product categories we had several specifications for each product which users capture in other details tab on Product master. Using these specification we need to generate Product code and descriptions. For which we first created Miscellaneous table definition and in the Miscellaneous Data of each table we created the category code and the specifications related to that category.
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Once we created miscellaneous tables for all the specifications, we created a custom screen “Other details” which has all the fields of the specifications with the type as ADI.
Once all the specification is selected from the “Other Details” tab in the Product screen, on creation, the Product code and description gets generated. To get the code we will use the “Short description” column and for the description we will use the “Description” column present in the Miscellaneous table for each of that specification.
Once the code and description are fetched, we programmatically concatenate the code and description. For example, in the “Other Details” tab we have selected the specifications as per the below image.
Based on the specification selected we will get the Product Code and the Product Description
This way we generated Product code and description using Miscellaneous tables.