Hi, I’d like to know if there is a way to write to the Job Material weight (specifically from the configurator).
I’ve tried setting JobMtl.Weight in the method rules, but it will not set the field value.
Do you need the weight because that is how much the operation/job will consume? We have our weight-based materials with the UOM of “pound/lb” and use the configurator to calculate how much weight will be consumed in this operation/job. The rules work just fine to change the ‘Req Qty’. Is this what you mean or are you trying something different?
We are creating a report for a supplier to show attributes of glass that we are ordering from them, including the weight. There are various calculations for this depending on the product, and currently the configurators write values to fields on a ‘template’ type part in the BOM.
The UOM of the part is ‘each’ (EA) as we deal with individual panels, so I don’t think that measuring it in M2 would work.
One way to get around this would be for me to create a UD field that our report can look at, but I was hoping to use a field that already existed.
Hmm, UD field would work, yes… We always start with a quote, so we do a thing where we write a 10-12 line comment in the quote/job line comment field that lists specifications that our folks need. There is a PO comment field on the QuoteMtl table, so it might be possible to plug your supplier data in there.
That field is also in the JobMtl table so it may work for you if you don’t do quotes.
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We do exactly the same, so adding it to this makes sense - thanks for your help 
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