# Item Management

## How to Assign an External to an Internal Item

| ### What to do:
| To work through this example, you must have completed the example Create an Item.
| Select Start > Items. The Item mask is opened.
| To change to insert mode click .
| Create a new item with the name Jumper Ring and the item number EXT-1510. This type of numbering is used to show up the external nomenclature of this project, which is put in relation to the company-internal number assignment system.
| Search for Jumper Ring with the item number ART-1510.
| Select the External Item tab.
| To change to insert mode click .
| Click in the Item Number field . The Items mask is opened.
| Select EXT-1510 from the list.
| To save the entry click .
| The external item EXT-1510 Jumper Ring is now assigned to the internal item ART-1510 Jumper Ring.
| External items can be assigned to internal items and vice versa.