Non-Stock Item Creation

Hi,
I have looked through the forum for an answer to a problem we are having We would like to create a non-stock item using the DI API but are not sure how to do this. So we have two questions:
1) How is a non-stock item defined by SAP Business One,
and,
2) How is one created in code?
If anyone could answer either of these questions or point us in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Adrian

Hi Adrian,
you use the Item Object for this and set the InventoryItem property.
i can help you with a vb6 snippet:
Dim oItem As SAPbobsCOM.Items
Set oItem = vCmp.GetBusinessObject(oItems)
oItem.ItemCode = "MyNewCode"
oItem.InventoryItem = tNO
oItem.Add
lg David

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