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1864680 - Cannot Set Supplier Invoice as Irrelevant in Closing Cockpit - Unposted Source Documents

Symptom

You want to set a supplier invoice as irrelevant for accounting. However when opening the business transaction for accounting, the button Mark as Irrelevant is missing.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Closing Cockpit view.
  3. Go to the Source Documents subview.
  4. Select the query Show: Unposted Source Documents.
  5. Select the invoice and choose Actions -> View Business Transaction.
  6. You cannot mark the invoice as irrelevant.

Cause

The system is behaving correctly, you cannot mark the original invoice as irrelevant.

Resolution

You must cancel the Supplier invoice. This will create a new cancellation document, which will also be an unposted source document.

The correct steps now are to mark the cancellation invoice as irrelevant.

  1. Go to General Ledger work center.
  2. Select the view Source document.
  3. Identify the cancellation Supplier Invoice.
  4. Select Actions.
  5. select View Business Transaction.
  6. Select Mark as Irrelevant.

Which will set the original invoice as irrelevant also.

Keywords

Supplier Invoice, Canceled, cancellation, irrelevant , KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions