A new article that only differs in a little detail from an existing article (e.g. in color), can be created in the simplest way by the copy function. First the original article is to be selected and the process is started with button . After confirmation of the appearing dialogue the new article is created.

 

Dialogue for copying an article

 

All values of the original article are taken over, including accessory assignements, partlists, file attachements and pictures. Only stock of inventory is not copied.   

Because a matchcode of an article has to be unique, the matchcode of the new article is enriched with a prefix >>. For saving the new article the matchcode has to be modified.

 

Copied article

 

After complete modification the changes are saved by clicking the button . 

If the creation shall be canceled instead, the article has to be deleted by clicking the button .