Version: 1.0.0
Audience: User

eXtendItem enables you to search for vendor products and constitute them in your account. Please refer this article for details regarding item search.

You can constitute item from both item search page and from item detail page.

  1. Navigate to eXtendTech > eXtendItem > Item Search.
  2. Search for products by specifying a search keyword under keyword field. Please refer this article for details regarding item search.


  3. Constituting items from item search screen -
    1. Once the results are fetched select a vendor present in your account for which this item will be created and colors & sizes of the items to constitute all the item parts with the combination of selected colors & sizes. You may need to select categoried based on the configuration done by your administrator. 



      Note: If no value is selected under color/size field then it will be considered as all the options are selected. This feature will come in handy if you want to costitute all the items parts of the product in your account.

    2. Once fields are selected the checkbox present at the first column will autocheck.

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    3. You can constitute multiple items by specifying category, color & size values on other items present in the list.
    4. Once all the required items are selected click on submit button to initiate item constitution.
  4. Constituting items from item detail page - 
    1. Once results are fetched, click on the name of the item to open item detail page.



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    2. To create items in your NetSuite account, select the attributes (categories, color, size) and click Constitute Item.

      Note: If no value is selected under color/size field then it will be considered as all the options are selected. This feature will come in handy if you want to costitute all the items parts of the product in your account.
  5. Items will be constitutd in your account based on the item constitution type configured on eXtendItem setup by your administrator.
  6. If the total number of item combinations to be constituted are less than five then the items will be constituted realtime and a list showing the links of constituted items will be displayed on screen as shown below:

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    But if the total number of item combinations to be constituted exceeds five then a Map/Reduce script will be initiated for item constitution and on completion of the process email will be sent to you with the list of constituted items.



    Email content sample:

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    The email will tell you if the items were created successfully (with links to items), or if an error has occurred.
    1. You may receive multiple emails depending upon the constituted item count and the email configurations performed by your NetSuite Administrator.
    2. During item constitution, if the item color name exceeds 15 characters, then only the first 15 characters will be used as its color abbreviation.
    3. In the case of duplicate abbreviations during item constitution, an error for the duplicate color abbreviation will be returned. In this case you will need to manually change the abbreviations for the duplicate colors. You can change it by navigating to the Custom List configured on eXtendItem setup.
    4. In the case of Matrix Item constitution, the item name of the items will be as per the matrix item name template defined on the eXtendItem setup page. Contact your NetSuite Administrator for more information on the configuration within your account.
    5. If the size or color attribute is not present on the constituted item, then that attribute will not be included in the name of the item.