2018447 - The Settings Required to Maintain Requested Date in Sales Orders

How to change the existing Requested Date in a sales order when the system picks one automatically when creating the order.

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1. Go to the Sales Order Work Center.
2. Choose New Sales Order from Common Tasks.
3. Enter required details to create the sales order.

In the field Requested Date under the General tab, you observe that the system picks Requested Date automatically which also gets copied over to the orders items' Requested Date.

The current behavior is dependent upon the settings in the Business Configuration Activity Date Profiles.

1. Go to the Business Configuration Work Center.
2. Go to Implementation Projects View.
3. In the field Show, select all Current Projects.
4. Select Project and choose Open Activity List button.
5. Navigate to Fine Tune Phase of the activity.
6. In the field Show, select All Activities then find Date Profiles activity and choose Go.
7. Select the Activity and Choose Add to Project option.
8. Open the activity Date Profiles.
9. New window opens up, various Date Variable For Sales shown up.

Under Sales Orders, maintain number of days required as per business requirement in the section Requested Date = Creation Date + Number of Days. For ex. Requested Date = Today's Date + Y Day(s)

In the same way, maintain validity for Sales Quotes, Leads and Opportunities and Date Variable for service business documents as well.

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