LOOKUP !! Possible to use both the Stock and vendor code ??

[casey]

Dale,

Wondering it's possible to use both the stcok number and Vendor code to do look up, as the stock number does not allow alpha numeric !!

Pls. kindly enlighten me if this is possible.

Appreciate that.

Wonderful piece of program. Thanks again.

Casey

[Dale Harris]

Casey,

I am assuming that you want to use the "vendor stock number" to ring up an item into a sale.

Well you betcha. It will still be neccessary to give each item a regular numeric stock number but you can use the vendor stock number to enter an item into a sale.

The first thing you will have to do is to go to the "Vendor list" feature of the POSCONFG.EXE program to set "Search first ______ lines" to a number other than zero. This tells the program which lines of the stock table to search for a matching vendor stock number when ringing up a sale. Since searching for a vendor stock number is much slower that searching for a regular stock number if you only need to use vendor stock numbers for some of your items put them in the stock table at the top and then set "Search first ______ lines" for as many if you need. Of course if all of the items in your stock table will be using the vendor stock number then set "Search first ______ lines" to the size of your stock table.

Now when you are entering an item into a sale you can press [*] and you will be asked for the vendor stock number. You will not have to enter the whole vendor stock number. If you just enter a partial vendor stock number the program will do an "INSTR" search and locate the first vendor stock number that contains what you typed. If the first partial match is not correct then press [2] to find the next match or [ENTER] when the correct one pops up.

[casey]

Dale,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

But, I am wondering for the LOOKUP in just checking the price, am I able to key in Vendor Stock number also ??

Or is it possible to enable inputting of ALPHANUMERIC in the stock number ??

Thanks !

Casey

[Andrew]

Alpha-numeric in Stock Number
You cannot enter alpha characters into the stock number field, it is declared in the stock table array as numerical. Changing this would require altering of the stock table which is a long and arduous process on Dale's behalf.

Lookup
I am confused, the only way to do a price lookup, apart from accessing the stock table direct via File Maintenance or POSCONFG, is to ring up the item in a sale.

Dale just explained how to do this. In a sale hit [*] while at the sale screen, and enter the vendor stock number (you will need to follow his instructions for setting up the search function first in POSCONFG).

You can't search the vendor stock number from [F1] in a sale, each stock number should be individual, regardless of if it's a normal stock # or vendor stock #, so hitting [*] and entering the vendor stock # should only link to one individual item in your table.

[grantm]

i think that she might be refering to using the Lookup program for price checks.

[Dale Harris]

Well I had never considered the idea of using the vendor stock number with the LOOKUP.EXE program. I can do it but I do not know when. Is this an emergency? Explain.

[Dale Harris]

While looking at the LOOKUP.EXE program I found a problem. If you do not enter any instructions then when the customer is entering a stock number, if she hits [PAGE UP] or [PAGE DOWN] instead, the program will lock up.

I have fixed this and the fix will be in the next released version.

[casey]

Dale,

Sorry for the confusion caused !! but, yes....I was referring to the LOOKUP.exe !!

Though it's not an emergency, but I sometimes face the problems of having alpha numeric item code which I must use.

Therefore, that would be good if I could LOOKUP with both STOCK CODE and VENDOR CODE.

Other the other hand, perhaps a suggestion on future release, as whether is it possible to switch between searching the only the STOCK CODE or VENDOR CODE, during sales, without having to press * everytime ??

Or perhaps enable to search both the data in STOCK CODE and VENDOR CODE, so that we could key-in either code ??

best regards to all !

TQ,

casey

[Andrew]

Casey - because the vendor stock number search takes longer to search the stock table, this is why it's an option by pressing [*] and also by limiting how many rows it searches through.

Searching both would probably slow things down quite a bit, it doesn't take long to hit [*]. But maybe Dale could consider an option in POSCONFG to set the "default" search method to one or the other.

So if your default is vendor stock #, pressing [*] would switch to ordinary stock #.

[casey]

Dale,

Would that be possible as to what Andrew suggested above ??

that would make my life a lot easier if that is possible !!

Thanks !