Currently comments can be entered for the Sales Lines but those cannot be printed and are not user friendly for entering.
Suggestions are:
1) Introduce a BLOB field on a Sales Line so that descriptive Text with unlimited length can be entered for a Sales Line. The concept could be similar as Work Description on Sales Header.
2) Ideally this text be entered using some kind of Text Editor that ideally is more user friendly as that one used for Comments or Extended texts.
3) Even better the extended description could be entered using some kind of
wysiwyg editor.
4) Extended Description would be printed in the reports. In Sales Documents this text should appear for each line just after the Sales Line.
5) The Text could be initialized on a Sales Line automatically based on some kind of template for each language and with possibility to define validity. The Template could be bound to Items/Resources etc...
Comments
We are currently implementing BC in our company and the lack of text and layout options not only in sales, but all documents is astonishing. Our implementation partner has developed a customization which implements a Field "Long Text" which is edited with the rich text editor and is stored as Blob. But this cannot be printed via Word documents and RDLC is also quite limited regarding complex layouts or pictures. BC needs an easy way of easy entering and print layouted text as header-, line- and footer texts. A fully integrated rich text editor would be a first step. But as an ultimate goal I would like to add:a wysiwyg editor which shows not only the text field edited, but the complete final document (Quote, Order, or Purchase) in full page preview
Category: Sales
Business Central Team (administrator)
Thank you for this suggestion! Currently this is not on our roadmap. We are tracking this idea and if it gathers more votes and comments we will consider it in the future.
Best regards,
Business Central Team