Adding Sales BOM to Sales Order through SDK

Question

Hello Experts,
We're encountering an issue with adding Sales BOM items to the Sales Order through the SDK. When we add the parent, the object automatically adds the children as lines after all other lines. This causes issues with our batch delivery creation. When the Sales Order is created inside SBO Client, it always adds the child items right under the parent. We have a work around where we change the LineNum through SQL, but that seems like a sketchy method - what's the proper way of adding Sales BOM items to a Sales Order?
Here is the code we're using to add the Sales Order lines
olOrders.Lines.ItemCode = sItemCode
olOrders.Lines.ItemDescription = aRecSet.Fields.Item("name").Value
olOrders.Lines.UnitPrice = aRecSet.Fields.Item("cartprice").Value
olOrders.Lines.Quantity = aRecSet.Fields.Item("qty").Value
Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

Hi Rob,
I certainly wouldn't recommend you use a direct SQL command to update the LineNum on the sales order rows. This will invalidate your support agreement with SAP.
One way you can deal with this would be to add your Sales BOM header item to a draft document (of type sales order) and add this first. You can then retrieve it in the DI API and add the other Items before adding the document as a proper sales order (and removing the draft). You can do this using the Draft and Documents objects either by coding each property or by exporting the Draft to XML and using XLST to convert it to a Sales Order and reimporting it. It does require a fair bit of coding but it will achieve what you need.
Kind Regards,
Owen