We have for some time had major problem with the function to create purchase invoices from outlook. Finally we had a programmers help to analyze that the problem was some functionality that via regex searched the email to see if any words in the email would match items or accounts in the company master data and then suggest the user to add these items or account as line items in the purchase invoice.

Some of our vendors send very large emails with faq sections, package tracking info, terms of sales and delivery, multiple attachments and so on. Sometimes the regex search would come with a result after 15 min. and some times it seems to choke on the data and finish after 8-10 hours!

So with the help of the programmer we found that the codeunit with this regex search (ItemSearch) was not controlled by any setup flag that could be switched off. The solution was to implement a very simple extension that disabled the regex search part of the add-in.

We also found that the documentation of the Add-in does not at all mention the option to create purchase invoices from outlook!

We run more small companies that has quit simple purchase process and we simply LOVE the Outlook Add-inn option to create purchase invoice and automatic attach email attachments to the purchase invoice as incoming documents. Totally brilliant solution - but we do not need the functionality that search the email to find suggestions for line items.

So based on this experience here comes my Idea for improvement.

1. Make a setup page where the functionalities of the add-in can be switched on/off - like the functionality that use regex search to make line items suggestions.
2. Update the documentation to describe the functions that are included in the add-inn.

Kind regards

Thomas Madsen Nielsen