Acumatica Vendor ID segment key different to BIZZACCOUNT segment length - acumatica

Question

I want to know if it's possible to setup Vendor ID segment keys with a less number of characters than the BiZAccounts..
For example I have created branch Keys like USBRANCH1 but now I want to create Vendor ID like V001 but not give the user possibility to enter more than 4 characters?
I'm not sure why BIZaccount is tied to vendors, customers, employees in terms of segment keys as this reduces flexibility and changing key length and type
Thanks

Answer 1

You can do the following to achieve that:
1. Create your own Segmented Key like below:
Create Cache Extension to the Vendor's DAC to change Default VENDOR Segmented Key which is inherited from BIZACCTto yours MYVENDOR like below:
using PX.Data;
using PX.Data.EP;
using PX.Objects.AP;
using PX.Objects.CR;
using PX.Objects.GL;
using System;
namespace ClassLibrary1.DAC
{
public class VendorExt:PXCacheExtension<Vendor>
{
[MyVendorRaw(IsKey = true)]
[PXDefault]
[PXFieldDescription]
public virtual string AcctCD { get; set; }
}
[PXDBString(30, IsUnicode = true, InputMask = "")]
[PXUIField(DisplayName = "Vendor", Visibility = PXUIVisibility.Visible)]
public sealed class MyVendorRawAttribute : AcctSubAttribute
{
public MyVendorRawAttribute() : this(null)
{
}
public MyVendorRawAttribute(Type where)
{
Type type = BqlCommand.Compose(new Type[]
{
typeof(Search2<, , >),
typeof(Vendor.acctCD),
typeof(LeftJoin<Contact, On<Contact.bAccountID, Equal<Vendor.bAccountID>, And<Contact.contactID, Equal<Vendor.defContactID>>>, LeftJoin<Address, On<Address.bAccountID, Equal<Vendor.bAccountID>, And<Address.addressID, Equal<Vendor.defAddressID>>>>>),
(where == null) ? typeof(Where<Match<Current<AccessInfo.userName>>>) : BqlCommand.Compose(new Type[]
{
typeof(Where2<, >),
typeof(Where<Match<Current<AccessInfo.userName>>>),
typeof(And<>),
where
})
});
PXDimensionSelectorAttribute pxdimensionSelectorAttribute;
this._Attributes.Add(pxdimensionSelectorAttribute = new PXDimensionSelectorAttribute("MYVENDOR", type, typeof(Vendor.acctCD), new Type[]
{
typeof(Vendor.acctCD),
typeof(Vendor.acctName),
typeof(Vendor.vendorClassID),
typeof(Vendor.status),
typeof(Contact.phone1),
typeof(Address.city),
typeof(Address.countryID)
}));
pxdimensionSelectorAttribute.DescriptionField = typeof(Vendor.acctName);
this._SelAttrIndex = this._Attributes.Count - 1;
this.Filterable = true;
((PXDimensionSelectorAttribute)this._Attributes[this._SelAttrIndex]).CacheGlobal = true;
}
public const string DimensionName = "MYVENDOR";
}
}
After this Vendor CD will work with 4 length. But as you can see on the screenshot below there will be some issues with the existing records. So I recommend you to do this only in case if the system has not existing Vendors.
Also after doing this I assume you to check all the pages which use Vendor for correct working.