Suggesting Item Charge Assignment in Purchase Documents

When you use the Suggest Item Charge Assignment function from purchase lines, you must select one of the following options.

Option	Result
Equally	The item charge is assigned equally to all assignment lines in the assignment window. Equal parts of the total quantity are inserted in the Qty. to Assign field.
Amount	The item charge is assigned depending on the content of amount fields on the sales line, sales shipment line, or sales return receipt line. The value in the amount fields in the three kinds of original lines is copied to the item charge assignment as follows: If the assignment line is transferred from the document where you entered the item charge, then the value in the Line Amount field is copied. If the assignment line has been entered using the Get Shipment Lines function, then the value in the Item Charge Base Amount field is copied. If the assignment line has been entered using the Get Return Receipt Lines function, then the value in the Item Charge Base Amount field is copied.

Equally

The item charge is assigned equally to all assignment lines in the assignment window.

Equal parts of the total quantity are inserted in the Qty. to Assign field.

Amount

The item charge is assigned depending on the content of amount fields on the sales line, sales shipment line, or sales return receipt line.

The value in the amount fields in the three kinds of original lines is copied to the item charge assignment as follows:

If the assignment line is transferred from the document where you entered the item charge, then the value in the Line Amount field is copied.
If the assignment line has been entered using the Get Shipment Lines function, then the value in the Item Charge Base Amount field is copied.
If the assignment line has been entered using the Get Return Receipt Lines function, then the value in the Item Charge Base Amount field is copied.

Note

You can manually change the value in the Qty. to Assign field after it has been filled with the Suggest Item Charge Assignment function.

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