Symptom
You want to release a payment allocation ID but an error message appears: Posting Date MM-DD-YYYY, must not before initial migration date MM-DD-YYYY.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to the Payment Management workcenter.
- Navigate to the Payment Allocation view.
- Show All Payment Allocations and search for the specific ID.
- Click Go.
- Select Edit and then Release.
- The error message appears: Posting Date MM-DD-YYYY, must not before initial migration date MM-DD-YYYY.
Cause
The Posting Date for Initial Migration is not set correctly.
To find out the Posting Date for Initial Migration:
- Go to the General Ledger workcenter and navigate to the Master Data view.
- Select the Companies subview.
- Here the Posting Date for Initial Migration is displayed for your company/-ies.
Resolution
The initial migration date must be in the past when the company was initially migrated.
Create an case and request support to set the correct Posting Date for Initial Migration via backend correction.
Keywords
posting date for initial migration , KBA , posting date for initial migration , payment allocation , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , How To