The Catalogue Import is initiated from the Catalogue Maintenance screen. It is this Catalogue that is highlighted that will be updated by the Import lines.
Validate By
You can validate the import by Catalogue Part or Supplier Part.
Create Item
You have the option to Create Item. This defaults to No Creation but allows the flexibility to set up an Item for Stock Management based on the Catalogue import from the Supplier.
Field Default
It is possible to put in a field default when that field list is highlighted except PartNo and Description. This is of particular use in setting the Activity Code for the import that will often not be part of a file received from a Supplier.
Update Description to Database
This provides an option not to update the Description if it already exists.
Review Existing
This takes you to the current Import Catalogue Lines file that is created when the import needs maintenance before importing. Ie. there was no match on validation.
Import File
This initially defaults from the Control File
but when you hit the it retains the subdirectory from the last import.
Supplier
Note that a Catalogue is allocated to a Supplier. The Catalogue lines are also allocated to a Supplier.
It is possible for these two Suppliers to be different. This would occur where you have a generic Catalogue that you attached all lines to from different Suppliers.
The last field of the import specifies the SupplierID of the Catalogue Line. The SupplierID can be obtained from Maintain Companies screen.