Sage 100

MAS 90/200 4.40 It doesn't appear that Item Aliases can be used in B/M Production Entry, which does seem to make sense because Prod Entry is typically for the company's own internal purposes so they should just use their regular I/M item #'s. But could this be accomplished with Scripting, or woud it instead require more involved custom programming?

Perhaps scripting, like an Item pre-validate event.

Perhaps create a UDF for BM Production Header which validates against a UDT that is a shadow of IM_AliasItem and has a BillNumber cross-reference field. This UDF now gives you a lookup on the alias shadow. Select the alias from the lookup then have a script fire off that to copy the Bill Number from the UDT to the Bill Number on the Header screen (SetValue into the Bill Number)

Why did they design scripting so it can't lookup a standard mas table? Stupid limitation

Scripting can, but you can't use validation to lookup based on a standard mas table. Supposedly they're working on it.

Well you can if you hack it, but I've only been able to do it with a single field, like a sales order, and not a multi-key field like customers.