Hi Bruce,

#1 was made a requirement because EDI systems require an expected ship date. You can set a default value in the company profile on the Processing Options tab ("Expected Shipdate spread"). A site does can ignore the field if they so choose, but they cannot leave it empty.

#2 Can this be resolved by using GV-RW to clean up the file or setting the code to something other than "blank"? Just asking because relying on a blank code for some specific processing is probably not a good idea. I'll ask R&D to take a look.

#3 is an unavoidable side effect of moving from a combo-box to a Finder field.