Employee Field in Purchase Order Forms Is Not Available

This article discusses on how to make the standard Employee field (field id: employee) appear on the Purchase Order record.

Solution

1. Enable the Purchase Request feature
2. Navigate to Setup > Company > Enable Features > Employees
3. Purchase Requests: Enter Checkmark
4. Note: Under the Time & Expenses section, you can find the Purchase Requests checkbox. The purpose of this field is to allow employees to create purchase requests for the approval of their Supervisor/s. As per field-level help, “Check this box to allow employees to enter purchase requests online. If you check this, you must also enable the Purchase Orders feature. If you want NetSuite to email supervisors when requests need to be approved, check Automatically Notify Supervisors on the Time & Expenses subtab of the Accounting Preferences page.”
5. Click Save
6. Open an existing Purchase Order
7. Note: The employee field should now appear on the mainline.