Alternate Items

For each item in your inventory, you can specify another inventory item as its alternate item. Items can have more than one alternate item, although you specify only one alternate item on each item’s record. An item’s list of alternate items grows as you assign alternate items to items which are themselves alternate items. The following example illustrates how this works:

1. Add items A, B, and C to Inventory Control.

2. On A’s item record, select item B as its alternate item.

The program links the two items so that item A is also an alternate for item B.

3. On B’s item record, select item C as its alternate item.

Item C is linked to the alternate item list that already contains A and B. The result is that each of items A, B, and C has two alternates. The following table shows this result:

4. Remove item B from Inventory Control by deleting its item record.

By deleting item B, you remove it from the alternate item list, and the link between items A and C is broken. Items A and C now have no alternate items.