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When creating a new vendor, select the desired Vendor Class from the Vendor Class property field. Assigning the vendor class to a new vendor will default all of the shared fields from the vendor class once the new customer vendor is initially saved. Changing a vendor’s vendor class after the vendor was already created will not re-default the shared fields. In order to re-default the shared fields of the previously created vendor from a newly assigned vendor class the user must roll down the field values from the vendor class (see step 5).
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