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I have a customer asking the following regarding MAS scripting in 4.4: Using Sales Order Entry as an example, can I pass variables to the script that aren't in SO_SalesOrderHeader and SO_SalesOrderDetail. Specifically, I'd like to pull some values from CI_Item based on items in the order entry lines panel. If not, supposing I added some UDFs to SO_SalesOrderDetail, would they be available to scripts? While I think the answer is yes I wonder if our scripting gurus - @AlnoorCassim @RobertWood @DawnAnastasi could confirm/deny?

When do you sleep?????? I don't think they would have to use a UDF to display data from the CI_item as you should be able to display the informaton directly. I say this based on my conversations with Dan Burlseson on the topic.

You should be able to add them to the screen without scripting depending on what your end game is. But the answer to your question is yes.

Thanks guys I'll pass this along

The answer is Yes but there are different approaches available depending on the big picture goal. As we know, with Customizer alone you can just map a CI_Item field into SO_SalesOrderDetail as a UDF and add it to the Lines tab. But if you just need the CI_Item value for scripting purposes (and avoid UDFs), you can do it in 1 of 2 ways: 1) Use the GetChildHandle method to the ItemCode data source. This is the best way because you don't have to get a new object (less script overhead) 2) Use GetObject to get the CI_ItemCode_bus object

Ditto on what Alnoor said. I've gotten info from CI_Item from a SO_SalesOrderDetail script many a time.

Thanks much!