A Purchase Order (aka PO) is a document issued by a buyer committing to pay the seller for specific products or services to be delivered in the future. The advantage to the buyer is the ability to place an order without immediate payment. From the seller’s perspective, it reduces credit risk, since the buyer is obligated to pay once the products or services have been delivered. Each PO has a unique number associated with it that helps both buyer and seller track delivery and payment.
This page lists each unique Purchase Order. The purpose of this page is to view, add, edit, remove, and close Purchase Orders.
This list view also contains columns for each Attribute that is set up for the 'AP Purchasing' attribute type. Because these are user defined, they are not included in the default view but can be added a saved layout. AP Purchasing attributes are not included in the help documentation..
Software Version: 2021.07.23 and newer
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Toolbar Icons | Description |
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Column Filter Show/Hide | Toggles between displaying and hiding a filter row in the grid under the column headers. The filter row will be displayed by default if the Quick Column Filter is also implemented in the page. When enabled, this will allow users to type in text to filter by a specific column. |
Delete | Deletes the selected record(s). When clicked, users will be prompted with: "Are you sure you want to delete the selected records?". Click "OK" to confirm, or "Cancel" to return without deleting. WARNING: Records cannot be recovered once they are deleted! |
Edit | Opens the selected record for editing. If a record is not selected, the page will either not open or will open the first record (depending on how the page was coded). |
Excel | Exports the contents of the grid to an Excel file that will automatically download. The contents that export are those that are visible to the user. Therefore, if the user has filtered the view, or excluded columns, only the contents in the grid will be exported. |
Favorites | Clicking on the star icon when it is an outline, adds the page to the 'My Shortcuts' tab and fills in the star. Clicking on the star icon when it is filled in (solid color), removes the page from the 'My Shortcuts' tab and returns the icon to an outline. Users must log out and back in before the pages will be visible in the 'My Shortcuts' tab. |
Group By Show/Hide | Toggles between displaying and hiding a row in the grid above the column headers to enable grouping by one or more column(s). Once displayed, users may drag and drop column headers to group by a specific column. Once the grid is grouped by a column(s), a subtotal footer row will display in the grouping for columns that have a page footer total. |
Help | Opens the online WIKI help page for the current page. |
Mass Update | Opens the mass update dialog, which allows to mass update the following properties:
PO's cannot be 'Closed' if there are any unposted AP Invoices, Credit Memos or Inventory Receipts. - need to discuss error message options |
More Actions | Displays a drop down menu of related actions. The list of options includes:
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New | Opens a new blank record for data entry. |
Opens the Print dialog window, where transaction and/or analysis reports can be downloaded, printed and/or emailed. When clicked, all the Reports that launch from the Print Dialog that are assigned to this page, and that the user has rights to (if Report Data Access is enabled) are displayed. When clicked, all the Reports assigned to the Functional Area of Purchasing, that launch from the Print Dialog, are assigned to this page, and that the user has rights to (if Report Data Access is enabled) are displayed. | |
Quick Column Filter | Used to filter across all columns in the grid. When the user types text into the Quick Column Filter text box, the grid's Filter Row will be automatically hidden. The text in the Quick Column Filter text box automatically replaces any existing Filter Row filters. The results of the data immediately refresh as you enter text. |
Refresh | Re-queries the contents of the grid/page based on the Search Options or the default values for grids that do not support Search Options. This ONLY re-queries the contents of columns that are currently visible, if you add a new column the contents will be empty until you click 'Refresh' again. |
Saved Column Layout | Displays the column layout lookup and related icons. This tool allows users to select a previously saved layout, create a new layout, save changes to a layout, forget/delete a layout and/or assign a saved layout as the default for the page. Once changes are made to the layout, such as columns are added or removed, the user can click the Save Layout icon and save the changes to the column layout. The visibility of the Filter Row is also saved with a saved layout. The new layout can also be set as the default. This is useful for creating specific views to separate master files or transaction types (i.e. Invoice specific vs. Credit Memo specific). Default layouts can be removed by clicking the 'Set as Default' button again when the current default layout is selected. Please note that existing saved grid layouts will display the Filter Row as hidden by default. |
Fields | Description |
Checkbox | Used to select one or more records to perform an action, such as Mass Update, More Actions, or Delete. |
Amt. Fully Invoiced | Identifies whether the 'Amt. Ordered' for every Purchase Order item has been fully Invoiced. If the 'Amt. Invoiced' for a Purchase Order item is >= the 'Amt. Ordered' for the item, the item is considered "Fully Invoiced" in terms of Amount (cost). If all the Purchase Order items are "Fully Invoiced" in terms of their amounts, then this will display as "Yes" otherwise it will be blank. This allows users to easily determine which PO's have amounts that have not yet been invoiced. This is a calculated field and is not stored in the database. |
Amt. Fully Received | Identifies whether the 'Amt. Ordered' for every Purchase Order item has been fully Received. If the 'Amt. Received' for a Purchase Order item is >= the 'Amt. Ordered' for the item, the item is considered "Fully Received" in terms of Amount (cost). If all the Purchase Order Items are "Fully Received" in terms of their amounts, then this will display as "Yes" otherwise it will be blank. This allows users to easily determine which PO's have amounts that have not yet been received. This is a calculated field and is not stored in the database. |
Amt. Invoiced | Identifies the sum of the extended amounts of all the line item that have been included on "Posted" AP Invoices and AP Credit Memos. This is a calculated field that is formatted to 2 decimal places. When AP Invoices and/or Credit Memos, with line items that reference a Purchase Order are posted, this value is updated. Database Field: ??? |
Amt. Ordered | Identifies the sum of the 'Amt. Ordered' of all the line items on the Purchase Order. This is a calculated field that is formatted to 2 decimal places. When AP Invoices and/or Credit Memos are loaded from a PO, the 'Quantity' will default as [Qty Ordered] - [Qty Invoiced]. If this results in a negative amount it will default as 0.00. When IM Receipts are loaded from a PO, the 'Quantity' will default as [Qty Ordered] - [Qty Received]. If this results in a negative amount it will default as 0.00. Database Field: ??? |
Amt. Received | Identifies the calculated sum of the extended amounts of all the line item that have been included on "Posted" AP Invoices, AP Credit Memos, and IM Receipts. This is a calculated field that is formatted to 2 decimal places. When IM Receipts, with line items that reference a Purchase Order are posted, this value is updated as |