Purchase Invoice cannot be made against an existing asset ACC-ASS-2021-00001

[courtdbest]

I have a demo scheduled next week…
to use ERPNext as our CMMS.
But I have found it impossible to get our existing capital equipment into Assets.
it just keeps telling me I cannot for a million stupid reasons…
Gross Purchase Amount cannot be zero…
pulling my hair out here

[Suresh_Thakor]

@courtdbest, welcome to the community.

Mark the Version of OS, ERPNext and Frappe in the Post.

Go through this thread. Hope it will help.

Can't Save Existing Asset

Here is the validation code that cause this issue: https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/blob/a7f42f72565ef1e47629101cabb0ad5e57c62d71/erpnext/assets/doctype/asset/asset.py#L129 There is no need to check Gross Purchase Amount and Purchase Receipt Amount If Is Existing Asset is checked on Asset creation. Should check Is Existing Asset value before above validation. My workaround for this issue is: Customization > Custom Script > New In DocType field, choose Asset In Script field, just put co…