New Purchase Order Dialog
This dialog lets you to create a new temporary
purchase order. It is opened from the
context menu in the
table of the purchasing screen.
The purchase order is not added to the database until you close the dialog by clicking on the OK button.
The purchase order is put into the "temporary" state, so that items can be added to it. There must always
be at least one temporary purchase order for each supplier. This dialog however, lets you create additional
temporary purchase orders. This might be useful if you want to place one PO with the supplier now, but keep some
items back and only order them later. This might seem strange, but depending upon deals which suppliers are offering
it can be advantageous to manipulate purchase orders in this way. Once you have more than
one PO for a given supplier, you can use the manipulate POs wizard
to do just this.
You must select an existing supplier. If the supplier does not yet exist in BookStore, close this dialog
and use the new supplier dialog to add one.
Tag is an arbitrary name that you can give to a purchase order, to help make it easier to find. When
using the Sales Wizard you have the choice of setting
which purchase order to add items to if they need to be ordered. In the sales wizard, there is a
dialog that makes use of this tag, so it is easier to decide which purchase order to add items to.