Jiwa

Hi Mike,

Is it possible to make a nonphysical item back orderable?

I know the inventory and sales order screens lock it which I can probably get around but what about the Business Logic Objects will it save it to the database?

Hi Stuart,

In the case of sales orders, it will only attempt to create or update backorders if the PhysicalItem property of the sales order line is true - that is a denormalised property from the inventory item - so it *should* work if you set the value to true after the sales order line is added - when the order is saved it will create or update the backorder record.

I can see explicit code there referencing bug report numbers for not creating or adjusting backorders if the PhysicalItem flag is false - so there is probably a good reason for us preventing backorders for non physical items.

It'll be a case of try it and see if works for all your use cases.

Mike