License Type Configuration Vs. Item Category

[dean_hinson2]

Hello All,

In the License Type configuration, you can set the Check First Doc. in Document Flow. For me this setting allows the License from the sales order, scheduling agreement, etc. to flow through the transactions to the declaration.

Then there is this setting in the item category, Copy Legal Control Data from Predecessor Item. 

So, I am thinking there could be a conflict, or are these settings complimenting each other.

Any thoughts from the Community?

Regards, Dean.

[mouaz_benredjeb]

Hi Dean,

For the setting "Check of First Document in Document Flow", this is used when a document number is needed for the license determination.

Say you have Sales Order 123 and you create a license for that Order 123. License is determined accordingly using the Sales Order number and the license is found and allocated to the Sales Order.

Later, you create the Outbound Delivery 789 (delivery of Sales Order 123). Depending on your settings, the license determination might fail because in the license you have maintained document 123 and not 789. 

By ticking the option "Check of First Document in Document Flow", when the time comes to trigger the license determination for Outbound delivery 789, the system will run the license determination using Sales Order number 123.

In other words, the setting helps you not having to maintain a document number for all the documents in a document flow (e.g. Contract->Offer->Sales Order->Outbound Delivery) but only maintain the document number of the very first document in the document flow and the for the remaining documents in the document flow the system will rely on that very first document in the document flow (if you license determination uses the document number).

Hope this helps.

Mouaz

[dean_hinson2]

Hello Mouaz,

[dean_hinson2]

Hello Mouaz, Sorry about that, I wanted to go to the next line. Instead, unfinished comment was posted. Anyway, so how does the Item Category setting come into play here?