Possible to change an item when it is enabled?

[mike_logan]

HI ERPNexters,
I have an item which I want to change.
During the setup of the item I accidentally clicked the box to enable serial numbers.
But this Item doesn’t have a serial number.
So when I go to make an invoice the system asks for a serial number.
I want to switch this off for this item.
I go to E>Stock>Item and select the item I want to change.
It is enabled but I can’t see anywhere to disable it.
So when I go into that item I can see that “serial number” is ticked, but I cannot click on it to change it.
What do I do in this case?
Many thanks in advance for any replies.
Mike

[dhananjay]

There is no simple workaround. Check you this post:

Enabling batch numbers after making stock entries

Setting Batch for existing items , seems to be the answer. So cannot do it midway, a possible but difficult workaround would be to: Duplicate the items and make the original item inactive. Rename the old item, so that the same name can be used for future transactions. Create new BOMs wherever the old item is being used Use BOM update tool to replace the all the Old BOMs This is a lot of work, I will have to manage without Batch nos. for now.

I wanted to do the opposite.

[mike_logan]

Thanks Dhananjay,
I had suspected this might be the case.
I really appreciate you taking the time to answer.

Kind regards
Mike Logan