Creating a parts order to address shortages seems difficult...

[tkuester]

Hey everyone! Just checking in to see if I'm missing something obvious. Here's my workflow that I did on the InvenTree demo.

1. Created a Build Order of "Test Board 1". I made the order a quantity of 100 so that there couldn't possibly be enough current stock.
2. Go to "Line Items" on the build order, and hit auto allocate
3. Clicked the filter button, and created a filter for "Available" is "No". (The wording was a little confusing, but I did get it to work!)
4. Select all items with shortages, and click the shopping cart icon

Up to this point, things are working great! The filter process was a little cumbersome, but I was able to figure it out after a couple of moments. (I reckon this is a common enough task it might warrant it's own button, "Show Part Shortages"?)

In any case. Once I click the shopping cart icon, this is the screen I'm presented with.

Currently, I have to assign a part to each item, and then assign the item to a purchase order, and then click the shopping cart icon. (That's five clicks.) Then I'm brought to this form.

Sadly, the number of units to purchase is only populated with "1" -- and the number I need is buried under several dialogs. I did find a few github issues about pre-filling the required quantity, but that was with the old UI.

Am I doing this the right way? Is there a simpler way to go about ordering part shortages for a build order?

[SchrodingersGat]

@tkuester looks like this was a shortcoming with the "order parts" wizard.

I have created a new PR to deal with this - #9389