B1i SN Addional Data from ItemMasterData

Question

Hello experts,
is it possible to fetch data from other documents for example while syncing Goos Receipt Documents.
With fetching other data I mean for instance if its possible to retrieve a property from ItemMasterData in order to build something like:
pseudocode:
Syncing Goods Receipt documents between two databases:
Sync Document Head
Sync Document Lines
for i to DocumentLine.Count
       if Document_Lines(itemcode equals the property in the ItemMasterData) then
               transmit the Document Line
      else
             do not transmit Document Line
i++
Any Ideas?
Regards
Sebastian
Edited by: Sebastian Jackels on Mar 31, 2011 10:02 AM
Edited by: Sebastian Jackels on Mar 31, 2011 10:04 AM
Edited by: Sebastian Jackels on Mar 31, 2011 10:04 AM

Answer 1

Hi Sebastian,
the functionality to retrieve additional data from a sent B1 object is called "KeyExpansion" in B1iSN.
You can see an example of such a Sender KeyExpansion in the standard B1 Intercompany Purchasing scenario biu.B1PO2B1DFT. For the direct ship scenario there is a need to get the Sales Order Customer address into the Purchase Order:
The B1iSN Sender KeyExpansion, here done via SQL query, finds the Sales Order base document of the sent Purchase Order object and then gets back the Customer Address from within the Sales Order.
You can find details how to set up such an Sender or Receiver KeyExpansion in "B1iSN Guide 02 Integration Development, chapter 4.3.1 Key Expansion, page 20"
Best regards
Bastian