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#10064 Add support for “External Document No.” in Subscription Contracts Fixes #8818

Subscription Contracts now support an External Document No. field that is automatically transferred to generated sales documents and posted invoices, improving support for EAN invoicing scenarios.

Pull request · merged into main (BC30) on 2026-09-22 by dksander (community contribution) · 4 files (+39 -0), 3 AL · feature · tier official · reviewed (checked by Opus)

What changed

  • Added External Document No. field to Subscription Contracts
  • Field value is automatically propagated to sales invoices during billing document creation
  • Propagation continues through to posted sales invoices
  • New test validates the end-to-end transfer of the field value
  • Low-risk change that only extends functionality when the field is populated
  • Behaviour changes for users or extensions.

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