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NSC | Creating Purchase Order from Order Items Page > Department is Not Empty

edited Jun 2, 2025 2:44PM in Accounting / ERP

Scenario

User uses the Order Items Page when creating some Purchase Orders but Department field gets automatically field and they want to disable this.

Solution

One of the possible causes of this is if the user role creating the Purchase Order has restrictions of 'Default to own' on departments, the departments are being set based on the role restrictions.

  1. Navigate to Setup > Users/Roles > Manage Roles
  2. Role: Click Edit
  3. Restrictions sublist:

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