Copy Sales Contract
Explanation
Use this activity to copy information, from the originating contract or any
other existing contract to another existing contract. It is also possible to create a new contract and copy the
originating contract's information to it. When copying information between two different
companies, company specific data is not copied.
Prerequisites
- A Sales Contract and its revision must exist.
System Effects
- Selected data is copied from one Sales Contract revision to another Sales
Contract revision, or a new Sales Contract is created by copying selected data
from a Revision of a Sales Contract.
- When copying information to an
existing contract, if the Planned Start Date
field is left empty, the new line items that are added will have the Planned
Start Date of the originating contract. Else the specified date will be
taken for the line items.
Window
Sales Contract
Sales Contracts
Copy Sales Contract
Related Window Descriptions
Sales Contract
Sales Contracts
Copy Sales Contract
Procedure
- In either the
Sales Contract
or the Sales Contracts window, select the Sales
Contract to be copied.
- Right-click and then click the Copy Contract menu option.
- The Copy Sales Contract dialog box will open, with the Sales Contract
Number from the selected Sales Contract in the From Contract No field
as default and
the active Revision No from the selected Sales Contract in the From Revision No
field. If no
active revision exists in the selected Sales
Contract, the Revision No will be left empty.
To create a new Sales Contract and
copy contract details to it:
- Select the New Contract check box in the
Copy Sales Contract
dialog box.
- Fill in a new Sales Contract number in the To Contract No field. If this field
is left empty, a number will be generated for the user.
- The Revision No field will be disabled so that no Revision Number
can be selected when creating a new Sales Contract.
- Fill in a Planned Start Date in the Planned Start Date field.
This field is mandatory.
- Select which information must be copied to the new contract by selecting the appropriate check
boxes.
- Click the OK button to copy the Sales Contract.
To copy to an existing Sales Contract:
- Do not select the New Contract check box.
- Select an existing Sales Contract where the data is to be copied to, using
the list of Sales Contracts shown when the List button is clicked .
- Select the Revision No of the Sales Contract where the data is to be copied
to, using the list of active Revisions of the Sales Contract (if any exist)
listed when the List button is clicked.
- Fill in a Planned Start Date in the Planned Start Date field. If
this field is left empty, the date for the new line items that have been
added, will be taken from the originating contract.
- Select which information must be copied over by selecting the appropriate check
boxes.
- Click the OK button to copy the Sales Contract.