1468023 - Error Message "Interval with Start Number XXX and End Number YYY Must Not Overlap"

You are editing the number range for a business partner or document type, but when saving the changes, error message "Interval with start number XXX and end number YYY must not overlap" is triggered.

• SAP Business ByDesign.
• SAP Cloud for Customer.

For this document, we will be using the Number Range for Business Partners as an example:

1. Go to the Business Configuration work center.
2. Select the Overview work center view.
3. Search and open the fine-tuning activity General Business Partners.
4. In the new screen, click the link to Define Number Ranges for Business Partners.
5. Select one of the number range rows.
6. Change or enter a value for the Start Number and/or End Number.
7. Click the button Save and Close.
8. System throws the above-mentioned error message.

The error is due to the overlap between the available number range rows.

The number ranges are separated, often by source (internal and external), so that the system knows from which "pool" of number ranges to draw a new ID when a new record is created based on the source. If these number ranges overlapped, the system could draw IDs from an incorrect number range pool and this would generate inconsistencies — as such, system does not allow saving a configuration in which number ranges overlap.

Please define number ranges that do not overlap between categories. For example, if you are defining the internal number range as 0001 to 9999, the external number range should be 10000 to XXXXX (where XXXXX represent any end number higher than 10000).

If you can see no overlap, than the issue might be caused by alphanumeric values in the interval of a manual number range, which can cause effects that are not obvious at first sight. Check the "See Also" section for more information.

Number Ranges and Number Assignment, at SAP Community wiki.

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