I'm on a vendor bill, and it is saying that the location is required, even though it is set as "not mandatory" on the form. There are no workflows or scripts setting it, and we have in the accounting settings "make inventory mandatory" = unchecked. Has anyone ran into this or have an idea of how to make this field not mandatory?

Don't show it on the form.

Do you have classifications mandatory in accounting preferences?

Are you referring to the allow empty classifications on journals?

that is one way of overriding it, but above that there is Make X mandatory:

Yeah, all of those are unchecked for me

is it erroring when you hit submit?

Yeah, I get the "Please enter value(s) for: Location

On the vendor bill does this happen when you enter expense lines or items lines? Also, have you checked the location field on both the expense and item sublists as well?

It's on the header level

Do you maintain inventory? If not, you can uncheck the Inventory checkbox. If yes, can you try customizing the form and unchecking the “Show” checkbox for Location?

We do maintain inventory, and I think we need the location for most instances

You can make a custom form for those transactions that do not require a location or you can create a dummy location to dump those transactions that do not really require locations. In this sense, there is no need for you to create a custom form.

Just in case it wasn’t brought up, did you check the form to see if the location field is mandatory? I didn’t see this in the thread. Usually though, it’s necessary to enter a location so it can pull inventory.

I did. It's set to not mandatory 🫤

OK then. The vendor bill needs a location to adjust inventory from. You can’t just use a blank location because Netsuite doesn’t know what to do when it involves a standalone vendor bill.

just don't show that field in the form. If you show it - it becomes mandatory. If you buy the inventory items, the location field on the line level is mandatory and not that on the header level.