Release Notes: Adaco 4_6_112

What’s Changing?

Fourth’s Purchasing & Inventory (Adaco) release 4.6.112 includes new functionality. Specifically:

• Ability to copy a product

Release date: 9th (EMEA) / 11th March (USA) 2021

Reason for the Change

Creating a product in Adaco can be time-consuming as there are several fields that need completing. Instead of providing default values that would need to be pre-defined and set up, the ability to copy from existing products has been implemented.

This will require no extra setup and will reduce the time it takes to create a new product. It will also reduce errors and data inconsistency - if one bottle of wine is copied every time a new one is created, all bottles of wine will have consistent attribute values.

Customers Affected

All Purchasing & Inventory (Adaco) users.

Release Notes

Ability to Copy a Product

• Go to Property > Products and right-click on an existing product
• Select the new Copy option – see Fig.1

Fig.1 – The new Copy menu option

The ‘Product – New’ screen will display (as it does when creating a new product), with most of the attributes of the new product populated from the ‘copied’ one. The text “(Copy)” will also be included in the product name – see Fig.2.

Fig.2 – The New Product as a result of the Copy

Fig.3 shows the original product from which the copy was made. Some values that are specific to the Product/Detail (e.g. Alternative Description, Manufacturer) are not copied over.

Fig.3 – The Product from which the copy was made

Past this point, the newly copied product will behave as if it is being created from scratch. See Purchasing and Inventory - Managing Products with Global Enterprise for more information.