Hi together,
is there a specific reason, why there is no “PRIMARY ADDRESS AND CONTACT DETAIL” section within the Supplier-DocType as it is within Customer-DocType? I am wondering if I have missed sth.
Within Customer that section looks as in the following screenshot:
I am aware of the existing “update issue”, as also mentioned within Refresh button vs. re-selecting reference items - #4 by peterg but I guess this is not the reason for that.
The address and contact is available once you save the supplier , cant think of a logical reason why this is such.
His concern is related to the Primary Section available in Customer, checkout both the sections in Customer Master in the screenshot below:
Yes saw that , still not sure of the logical explanation of it being like that.
Thansk both of you!
Thats exactly my point - right now it feels like a bit inconsistent. The “Address and contacts” as shown within @msalim79 screenshot is in addition to the “PRIMARY ADDRESS AND CONTACT DETAIL” available within Customer. And in my opinion it is a good idea to have both sections available.
For sure, within a contact you could check “Is Primary Contact”, but you can have several “primary contacts”. With the unique entry within a “primary address and contact detail” section, it would be very clear, what is really the primary contact info…
So what I am looking for is some kind of explanation, if this is by design and not just missed. If it would be missed, for sure I will open a github issue and contribute the relevant part…
At some point, though I’m not sure exactly when, contacts and addresses became independent doctypes to facilitate a many-to-one relationship with parents (one customer/supplier can have multiple contacts and addresses). That’s a good thing, in principle, but the implementation hasn’t really kept up. It’s possible that there’s a deeper reason than that, but I suspect not. It’s definitely due for a refactor!
Hm, thats possible.
Let’s see, if maybe someone else can remember, if there is a reason for that.
@Patrick.St I think this was to help quickly make primary customer address and contact via the Quick Entry popup. It’s also used in Customer search. (not sure either i just dug around)
Anyway here’s a PR feat: (consistency) Add Primary Address and Contact section in Supplier by marination · Pull Request #27197 · frappe/erpnext · GitHub to make it consistent with Supplier.
