[cgieselman]

One of our customers is requesting product descriptions on their invoices that match the packing lists they receive for orders (the items being purchased are drop ship items, the invoice currently reflects sales description and the packing list from the actual manufacturer matches our purchase descriptions).

I am working on rolling out a custom advanced pdf template but am having trouble getting the purchase description to appear. The closest I have gotten is showing the purchase description for the first item on all of the line items using ${item.item.purchasedescription}.

My two questions are: why is it showing the same result for all the line items and how can I get the result I am looking for?

I really don’t want to do another custom column field that sources from the purchase description, it doesn’t seem like this should be necessary but then again lots of things in NS are counter-intuitive.

Thanks,
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[k_dunc]

Hi cgieselman, I’m guessing you’ve correctly set up your “” call in your Advanced PDF? So all other lines in your Invoice are showing the correct Items / prices etc., except for this purchase description? If that’s the case, then I’m not sure what’s going on there – i.e., I don’t know why it would show the same purchase description for all Items.

Unfortunately, if you can’t get the above to work, creating a custom Transaction Column Field and calling it in your Advanced PDF template should do the trick. You could set this field up with a ‘Disabled’ display type and a formula in the ‘Default Value’ field.

[cgieselman]

Yes all the line item info shows correctly, I’ve been using the structure for the #list that was in the stock template and just modifying as necessary.

If anyone else has any info on this I would appreciate it before I move ahead with another custom column field.

Thanks again.

[michoel]

I’m pretty sure the only way to do this is with a custom field.

Set ‘Store Value’ = F, and on the forms it is used in remove all the text from the Label (but leave ‘Show’ checked) to hide it in the UI.

[cgieselman]

Thanks Michoel, this is what I had done in the absence of any other solutions. Not sure why NS has to make things so difficult.

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