Chunking

Bills can consist of hundreds of bill lines. Chunking enables you to control the number of rows that appear for the corresponding bill. You view rows of data in chunks so that you do not have to wait for the system to retrieve and display all bill lines at once.

Specify a value on the Installation Option - Application Fundamentals: Billing - General Options Page for Bill Entry Max Rows (bill entry maximum rows) to define the maximum number of rows that appear when you display a bill. After the system returns the first chunk, use the arrow command buttons to select a chunk to view.

Note:

A chunk is not the same as the amount of data that appears on screen at one time. It represents all of the rows in the scroll at a given point in time.

The system displays the Total Number of Lines to the right of the Max Rows field. The Total Number of Lines field displays the total number of line items on the entire invoice.The value is updated by the system when lines are added or removed from an existing invoice. When adding new invoices, the value is updated when you save the invoice.

If a bill is subject to value-added tax (VAT), processing is performed to check for line information that may be out of synchronization with header information. All bill lines have to be loaded into the chunking group so that all lines can be assessed when determining if data is out of synchronization. If there are more bill lines than your chunking group, and the bill is subject to VAT, then you can load all bill lines into the chunking group by increasing the size of the maximum row. Or, if the number of bill lines is prohibitive, another option is to changes the bill status through the Change Bill Status process (BIIVCSTS).

See Application Fundamentals: Billing - General Options Page.