3330677 - Export of suppliers via mass data maintenance leads to empty fields in export file

When trying to update suppliers via mass data maintenance, previously filled extension fields are showing as blank in the export file, but their values can be updated with the import file.

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1. Go to Supplier Base work center
2. Go to Suppliers view
3. Open the supplier ABC (where ABC represents the Supplier ID)
4. Open Purchase tab
5. Find values in extension fields

1. Go to Mass Data Maintenance work center
2. Export supplier ABC
3. Check the export file
4. Observe that above mentioned extension fields are blanc, and possibly also appear in different order
5. Maintain new values into the fields
6. Save the file
7. Import the file via Mass Data Maintenance work center
8. Complete the import

1. Go to Supplier Base work center
2. Go to Suppliers view
3. Open the supplier ABC 
4. Open Purchase tab
5. Find the extension fields updated with new fields, possibly in different order 

Due to a technical restriction it is currently not possible to extract extension fields from the procurement data.

This as a restriction, that currently cannot be overcome. This way, the mass update via mass data maintenance is not fully supported.

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