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Split versions into files

PerHag

Hello,

In our company we have a bunch of small companies (division). For some reason they have similiar numberseries for invocies which causes same invoice-number can appear in more than once, In our import-service it was forgotton to take the division in mind which has caused that:
Invoice X from company A comes like a version 2 on Invoice Y from company B instead of becoming two unique documents.

Is it possible to automate a split of the documents that has been imported  into single documents?

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    Have a customer with similar setup. We have handled it by adding a 2 letter "division" prefix on all objects imported from or created for a specific division. The prefix is placed in the external ID as well as in the Name or title property. This way they avoid the problem you are facing.

    If your issue only concerns a small number of documents you can manually open a previous version of a document and then save it as a new document. I am not aware of any method that can do this automatically. You would probably need to develop something if you need to handle large numbers of documents.

  • 0 in reply to bright-ideas.dk

    Thank you for replying. I think we have a plan for new documents. It was the old ones I was thinking of primarly. 
    I was afraid that it wasn't easy to solve. I guess that it is hard just to filter out all the affected documents. "Every document where version is more than 1 and where metadata division differ between versions"...

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