what is the impact of inactivating a department? can future transactions be created with the inactive department?

AI generated answer (using internal Slack threads):

****** Disclaimer: This response was generated by an artificial intelligence assistant based on previous conversations from multiple Slack channels, and may contain inaccuracies or mistakes. ****** Inactivating a department in NetSuite does not prohibit you from processing historical transactions associated with that department. All inactivating records does is hide them from global search (depending on your preference settings) and restrict them from being selected on any dropdowns referencing that list/record. However, it's important to note that if you inactivate a parent department, it will also inactivate the child departments associated with it. To avoid this, you should inactivate them from the list of departments using the checkbox, not from the record itself. As for future transactions, you won't be able to select the inactive department on new transactions. But if you need to see the historical data associated with that inactive department, you can add the "Department : Inactive" field in the Available Filters tab of a saved search. This will allow you to filter the results to show records with the inactive department.