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Guideline Business Reference Is An Uppercase Id And Number Sequence Separated By Hyphen

Used as document name anchor.
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Business Reference Is An Uppercase Id And Number Sequence Separated By Hyphen

Some business documents used commonly at Nexedi can benefit from a better naming of their reference. Such documents are often referenced in mails, emails, conversations, etc. They include invoices, purchase orders, sales orders, etc. The naming convention for such references is based on 2 letters followed by a sequence of numbers combined if necessary with a date. Most of the times these business references are generated automatically.

Business References are generated automatically.

Good Examples:

PO-1234567 (Purchase Order)
SO-1234567 (Sales Order)
IN-1234567 (Sales Invoice)
SPL-123456 (Sales Packing List)
IPL-123456 (Internal Packing List)
PPL-123456 (Purchase Packing List)

Bad Examples:

Sales-Order-123456
Invoice-2015-12-12
PurchasePL-1234