[Enhancement] Blank Shipping Address when Creating Documents

[bohlian]

Documents such as PO, SO, SI, PI etc. etc. all pull shipping address once you select a Customer or Supplier. This is because of erpnext/party.js at dab1172a18c9d7ff41c5e8216d76bfe60fabc7b6 · frappe/erpnext · GitHub

The design isn’t very ideal to some businesses whom have a Customer or Supplier with multiple shipping addresses and whom do not want to default a Shipping Address and instead wants the user to select it. There is no simple way in JS to intercept it since all these run on async.

I can modify the function but would like to gather opinion on how we should provide this functionality.

1. Should we just have a JS variable flag that can be programmatically set perhaps like a var do_not_set_shipping_address and let get_party_details read this flag and determine whether it should set the shipping address? Users wont be able to set this through the UI and will need to do Custom Scripts to achieve this… or

2. Should we have a setting in “Buying Settings” “Selling Settings”, “Stock Settings” and “Account Settings” that allow the admin to set whether the shipping address should be populated for each document i.e. SO, PO, PI, SI, DN etc. - this could be quite messy but users could set this on the UI

What do you guys think?

[bohlian]

Here are references to people whom have this problem as well:

Purchase order from sales order

We need to create a purchase order from a sales order but not a drop shipment. This can easily be done in ERPnext, but the shipping address is always taken from the customer on the sales order. (even if no drop shipment) Is this an bug? We would like to leave the shipping address blank in this case.

PO is not saving due to Shipping Address from SO

I just encounter some problem in the ERP Version 8. Shipping address in the SO was blank but after saving the document, it comes automatically. Hence when I make a Purchase Order it’s not allowing to Save and a message pops ‘Could not find Select Shipping Address’.