This is a feature request that has been on the books for a while. Only requested by one user as far as I know.
0003133: User has requested an Item Picking List on the Order screens.
Description: He would like to be able to flag the Items to appear in the Order - from the Item List, and then add the Quantities.
This is the very thing that MWScript is for: functionality that is only wanted by a small percentage of users, which if included in the base product would only add complexity and concomitant fear and confusion for all other users.
It takes a few minutes to write a script to implement this functionality
constant meta = "Sample by Rowan Daniell. http://cognito.co.nz"
// Creates a new Sales Order populated with the highlighted products
property populate = 0
on MakeOrder public // Invocation point
let populate = 1 // set one-shot flag
Navigator("neso") // make new sales order
end
on Before:F_TRANS:SO(winref)
if populate // only do our thing when one-shot is set
let list = GetListHandle(winref, "All Order Lines")
let row = 0
foreach prod in product CreateSelection("Product", "**")
if row > 0 // the first row is inserted automatically
AddListLine(list)
endif
SetListField(list, row, "Item", prod.Code)
let row = row + 1
endfor
let populate = 0
endif
end
on Load
// install our command in the Command menu
InstallMenuCommand("Pick Order for Selection", "Order_From_Sel:MakeOrder")
end