Placing a purchase order
To place a purchase order
- Open a purchase order, as described in Searching-for-purchase-orders.
- In the Purchase Order Information form, click Place Order.
- In the Place Purchase Order dialog box, from the Place Order Using list, select Email, Web Service, or Manual.
- If you select Web Service, the order becomes accessible to a web service. Another application can use its web service to accept the order.
- If you select Manual, you must complete a purchase order on paper.
- If you select Email, complete the remaining fields as follows:
- Complete the Send To field, and, optionally, the CC and BCC fields with the recipients of the message.
- If appropriate, modify the subject line from the default value.
- Review the message text. If necessary, you can change it.
Click Save.
On the Purchase Order Information form, the status of the purchase order changes to On Order.
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