concatenate values from several fields into one - acumatica

Question

I'm looking for help, I want to concatenate the type value and tax category value within the description field.
Any ideas?
Thanks!!

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways in which you can go about this.
Given that there are 2 fields involved in your concatenation, and any of them could be changed at any given moment, you could manage the logic in the RowUpdated event. In which case, you should filter by the specific fields to be considered in order to prevent this logic to be executed for any other field.
For instance:
protected virtual void InventoryItem_RowUpdated(PXCache sender, PXRowUpdatedEventArgs e)
{
InventoryItem newRow = (InventoryItem)e.Row;
InventoryItem oldRow = (InventoryItem)e.OldRow;
if (!sender.ObjectsEqual<InventoryItem.itemType>(e.Row, e.OldRow)
|| !sender.ObjectsEqual<InventoryItem.taxCategoryID>(e.Row, e.OldRow))
{
//Add concatenation logic
sender.SetValue<InventoryItem.descr>(newRow, "NEW CONCATENATED VALUE");
}
}
The advantage of this approach is that you have all the logic centralized in the one place.
As an alternative approach, you could use the FieldUpdated events from ItemType and TaxCategoryID.
Regardless of the option that you select, both fields should have the CommitChanges property set to true in the ASPX in order to have the logic executed immediately after taking the focus out of the field

Answer 2

Create a customization. In the customization project, go to Database Script, create a sql script. Add the following command
update inventoryitem set descr = case when charindex(' type: ',descr)>0
then left(descr,charindex(' type: ',descr))
else descr end + ' type: ' + case
when itemtype = 'F' then 'Finished Good'
when itemtype = 'M' then 'Component Part'
when itemtype = 'A' then 'SubAssembly'
when itemtype = 'N' then 'Non-Stock Item'
when itemtype = 'L' then 'Labor'
when itemtype = 'S' then 'Service'
when itemtype = 'C' then 'Charge'
else 'Expense' end + ' tax: ' + TaxCategoryID
Publish the customization whenever you want to update the values.