Hi,

We are investigating the option to extend the domain of tiitm in b40_c4.
The number of positions of the item number in standard BAAN is too short as we want to incorporate longer manufacturers' item numbers.
We are still in the implementation phase. We would like to know if any of you came accross a similar issue and how you resolved this.
Of course we are aware of Alternative Items but feel that this offers only limited functionality to us.

We also learnt that there should be an existing BAAN extension available that would cover this issue. Especially in the Automotive industry companies will be dealing with long manufacturers' item numbers.

Regards,

Edwin

I have done something similar, extended another field.
we had to check all the forms/reports and make sure the new field length did not extend into another field. Other than that it is straight foward. - maybe check any hard coded use of the old field length in exchange schemes/interfaces.

It seems to me Baan provided something for us to run at installation time to convert the item length from 16 to 32. That was back in 99, so I can not really remember. I looked through the setup and it seems to be 32 in all the baan layers. I do know that we fixed a few reports and displays for the users, but not many. It has been too long since we did this.

Good Luck!

Mark

We increased the "tcitem" domain to 25; conver to RTDD.

It changes all the table fields that are connected with the "tcitem" domain. Also all forms that can accomodated the increase in item field length. Otherwise you have to manually fix the forms.

Reports do a "Global compilation of reports". As long as the layout accomodates the increase in legth it will convert otherwise you have to manually fix reports as well.

regards

VISH

We've done similar in BaaN IVc.3. You are in BaaN IVc.4, but we think that same funcionality should exist in IVc4.

Try this.

Use ttgfd4121m000 session. Read helps of this session first and take your backup ... In this session you can extent "any" domain.

After extention of the domain you should "handle" all your related report and forms....

You can also look at BaaN Support Knowladge Base to see the related solution. Use "extended field" keyword to search...

Good luck.