how to enable projects for vendor bills and purchase orders

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To enable projects for vendor bills and purchase orders in NetSuite, you need to expose the customer field on Bill line items. This will allow you to assign customers or projects on Bill lines. Here are the steps to do this: 1. Navigate to the transaction form customization page. This can be done by going to Customization > Forms > Transaction Forms. 2. Select the form you want to customize (for example, the Vendor Bill form). 3. In the Screen Fields subtab, find the line item fields section. 4. Check the 'Show' checkbox for the 'Customer' field. This will expose the customer field on the line items of the form. 5. Save the form. After doing this, you will be able to assign projects to line items on vendor bills and purchase orders. However, if you want the project from a vendor bill/purchase order to flow through to the vendor bill variance journals, you might need to use a script that runs on the Journal Entries after their creation. This is because this functionality might not be available with the standard NetSuite setup. When transforming a purchase order into a vendor bill, all the items and quantities will be taken. If you want to bill only the items that are received, you might need to write custom logic to handle this. Alternatively, you can disable the 'Bill in Advance of Receipt' preference to fix this issue. ****** Disclaimer: This response was generated by an artificial intelligence assistant based on previous conversations from multiple Slack channels, and may contain inaccuracies or mistakes. ******