I’m trying to change the naming series for several document types to include the company name. I changed Purchase Order to company.PO- after I update I went to change Sales Order to company.SO- I get an error: “Series company.SO- already used in Purchase Order” any ideas what I am doing wrong?

[image] Nathan: after I update I went to change Sales Order to company.SO- I get an error: “Series company.SO- already used in Purchase Order” Are you in version 8? May be naming series has to be unique and it seems you have used the same naming series in PO

@Nathan : This link may be helpful for you- [image] You can use custom field in naming series along with YY MM DD option ERPNext Hello All, I am sharing some naming series option which will be helpful. You can now use custom fields in naming series. You can…

hi @Basawaraj_Savalagi , yes I am on version 8. The errors suggests that the naming series are not unique but they are: company.PO- and company.SO-

@kmohini thanks for the link. Yes, I have read it. I don’t think I need to customize the code… company.SO- does indeed work for my purpose. I would just like to prepend “company” to several document types.

so I did some experiments. it seems like I can do “SO-.company.-” and “PO-.company.-” but I can’t do “.company.-SO-” and “.company.-PO-”. Is this a bug or intentional?

I am having issues with the naming series prefix! For some odd reason the numerals were outputting a weird number, especially using special characters such as the dash: - Then without the dash, i was unable to get the specific amount of numerals, ie I needed a 10 digit number, and it was outputtin…

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Naming series bug?

kmohini April 18, 2017, 10:24am 3

@Nathan:
This link may be helpful for you-

You will have to customize the code to use the company name in your series.