Custom Forms: Line Item Templates


Big Business Custom Form templates include full-page templates such as Invoice, Sales Order, and Quote, which are easier to edit, visually, but often cause problems when used to print transactions with multiple pages.

New Line Item templates, which are not full-page templates, print seamlessly across more than one page and can include variable depth entries like the Line Item Comments as well as Fields from the Item Card. (5753)






Big Business includes the following Line Item Templates:
• Quote, Line Items
• Sales Order, Line Items
• Invoice, Line Items

Line Item Templates offer several advantages:
• better multi-page control
• option to include fields from the Item Card
• variable-depth Comments
• option to include space or a horizontal rule between line items

Line Item Templates require exact positioning of the Section lines (Body, Total, Footer).

The Body section (everything below the Header line and above the Body line) repeats for each item, so, for example, to add more space between items, move the Body line down, which first requires moving everything below it, down.

The Footer line marks the bottom of the page, so, for example, to print the totals closer to the bottom of the page, move the Footer line up. Anything below the Footer line will not print, and there is usually a limit on how close to the edge your printer can actually print.



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