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    Help with changes to Packing List

    I've got some changes that need making to the Packing List report within the next two weeks and I'm staring at Crystal Reports and the 1001 other things to do around here and thinking I haven't got the time to ascend the learning curve. Input would therefore be much appreciated on how to achieve this or to identify someone who could do this work for us!

    The problem:
    Get a picking location onto the Picking List. We have new staff starting in 3 weeks and with 2000 SKUs and growing, navigating the warehouse is becoming increasingly difficult.

    Solution so far:
    Added a custom property 'LOCATION' which can be set per product. This is now in the ProductProperties table as nValue1 = 18. However the report must assume this might not have been set for a product - which is where Crystal Reports immediately let me down. Despite fathoming out how to start modifying the SQL, the left outer join from OrderDetail to ProductProperties fails to return a row when there is no row in ProductProperties. This is before I've figured out how to get the resultant ProductProperties.sString1 value that contains the location onto the report.

    Pointers welcome, or if you do custom reports work then please email me for a spec to quote against.
    Alternatively, if someone's done this before in a different/easier way then I'd be interested to hear about it!

    Cheers,
    simon
    Cult Pens

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    Simon,

    You may want to try something. Go to 'Business Settings | Options' under 'Product description in reports:' select the checkbox that has 'Enable Extended Product description for Customer reports'. This will create a new tab on your Products that says 'Report Description'. You can put the picking part number in here ( this field has a limit of 20,000 characters ) and it will appear on the invoice and packing list.

    Kind regards,
    Bruce King
    SellerDeck

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      Many thanks Bruce - that looks like it'll do the job and save me a lot of time.
      It's not ideal having it appear on the invoice, but I think that it can be easily deleted from the invoice report.

      Irritatingly, having pulled the report apart in Crystal Reports I can see it would be fairly simple to do what I was trying to do originally, except for the outer join obstinately refusing to deliver the correct result set!

      Thanks again,
      simon
      Cult Pens

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