Additional Properties and Category Codes for Subcontract Management

Additional properties and category codes capture user-defined information for a subcontract order. The Additional Properties and Category Codes tabs include multiple user-defined fields. At the time a subcontract order is created, you manually enter values for fields on the Additional Properties and Category Codes tabs on the Contract Header or Contract Detail forms.

Note: If you enter values in the user-defined fields on the Additional Properties and Category Codes tabs on the Contract Header form, then the fields on these tabs are display only on the Contract Detail form.

In order to access the user-defined fields you must enable the Display Additional Properties Tab and Display Category Codes on Header Tab and Detail Grid processing options on the Display tab of the P4310 program.

You can also set the Address Book Field Required processing option to specify whether the Address Book 01 and Address Book 02 fields on the Additional Properties tab are required. This processing option is used in conjunction with the Display Additional Properties Tab processing option on the Display tab of the P4310 program. If the Address Book fields are required then the Display Additional Properties Tab processing option must be enabled.

The user-defined field values from the Additional Properties and Category Codes tabs are stored in the Purchase Order Header table (F4301). The user-defined fields are not stored in the Purchase Order Receiver File table (F43121).

The Category Code 01 through Category Code 04 fields appear in the detail grid of the form. These fields are independent from the category codes on the Contract Header form. The values in the fields on the Contract Header form do not populate the fields on the Contract Detail form. The user-defined field values are stored in the Purchase Order Detail File table (F4311).

Note: Purchase orders created directly in P4310 provide access to the user-defined fields on the Additional Properties and Category Codes tabs on the Contract Header or Contract Detail forms. Purchase orders not created directly in P4310, such as transfer orders, direct ship orders, and order generation programs, do not provide access to the user-defined fields. Once the subcontract order is generated, you can then access the order in P4310 to enter values in the user-defined fields.

If you copy a subcontract order that has values in the additional properties and category codes user-defined fields then the duplicate subcontract order will also have user-defined field values irrespective of the processing options. Blanket orders released by the P4310 program do not carry over the values in the user-defined fields on the Additional Properties and Category Codes tabs on the Contract Header or Contract Detail forms.