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On the Item table, the No. field is limited to Text 20. Please extend the length of the Item No. to 50.

There's several different scenarios where this can be an issue.

Regularly customers have longer Item No's and it is a huge project to undertake to change all the item numbers when converting to a new system.

When integrating Dynamics BC with other systems, we've encountered issues due to the fact that most others are not limited to such a small Item number.

Several ISV's already go through the product making the 300-500 necessary changes to extend the length. We won't be able to extend the field as a modification in the cloud offering.

Thanks,





Category: Inventory
STATUS DETAILS
Under Review
Ideas Administrator

Thank you for your feedback. We are not considering the suggestion at this time due to potential negative impact, for more information, see https://docs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/analyzers/appsourcecop-as0086
We continue to monitor feedback.

Meanwhile there is a possibility to define longer product IDs via the Item References: https://docs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/inventory-how-use-item-cross-refs

Sincerely,
Andrei Panko
PM, Microsoft