Hi. The reason we were trying not to enter the packed item is because the client finds it redundant and would like to enter only once the commod/item. for them the commod code is the same as the packaged item. For now we are forcing them to enter the packaged item in order to pull in the G/L code assocaited to the packaged item.
as note the item gid has a flag that we set to default packaging but it does not evidently link to the commodity code gid.