Add a quantity greater than 99,999 to a Method of Manufacture Max quantity?

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We have a CPQ (Not specifically a CPQ question) built to build out our Method of Manufacture for a product that consumes a large amount of square inches of Ink. We can price our Inks based on area. The part we created for this has an inventory uom of Square Inches. It has not been a problem until we decided to test our pricing model on a larger example. This would still be a realistic possibility, as this is a wall covering product. It works until the ink hits 99,999 square inches, then we get an error “Failed to import quote method: Require Ref Designators is too large for its format of ‘>>>>9’”.
I tried to use Quote line Engineering to add a material line item for the Ink part and I can see I am only allowed to enter 7 characters before the decimal point. It seems a limitation of maximum quantity is set.
The easy work around in Quote line engineering would be to use Square Feet to enter the ink. However CPQ seems to want to use the Inventory UoM for the part which since there are transactions on this part is now stuck at Square Inches. I have attempted to change the UoM that CPQ uses when it pushes back into Kinetic but so far no luck.
Is there a max quantity allowed setting I can update?

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The default format for QuoteMtl.QtyPer is >>>>9.99999999

Change that in Extended Properties:

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Quote Engineering honors the change:

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You’ll just have to make sure the math works as expected on the other end.

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I will test when done with meetings this afternoon.

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Thanks so very much this was exactly what I needed, however being the patient individual I am I should have reviewed the error message more closely. It was a field named “ReqRefDes” that needed to be extended. I used the same steps above to also extend this field and it works now!

I learned something interesting about CPQ. I was pushing the material back as SqFt which was significantly less than 100,000 however it still wanted to send the value into Kinetic from CPQ into this field in SqIn. I am not sure if because that is the base UoM of the UoM class or because that is the Inventory UoM on the part.

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