1902455 - Error Message in Unposted Source Documents: Period AAA in fiscal year BBB closed for closing step Operational postings

In the General Ledger work center, under Source Documents view you may see certain Unposted Source Documents with the error message:

'Period AAA (numeric value) in fiscal year BBB (numeric value) closed for closing step Operational postings'

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1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
2. Go to the Closing Cockpit and click the Source Documents view.
3. In the Source Documents, select the option Unposted Source Documents in the Show view and click Go button.
4. A list of all Unposted Source Documents will appear with this error message.

The reason of such error message is that you are posting financial documents in a closed period. As an example, you are creating a financial document in the current period DD/MM/YYYY to post to Financial Document in the old (past) period but the old/past period has been closed for Operational Postings. Old period is only open for Closing Entries (020) but not for Operational Postings (010). In this case, system will not post these financial documents and it will appear in the Unposted Source Document in the Source Document view under the General Ledger work center.

Those unposted source documents can be manually posted to the current period which is open or you could post to the old/past period.

A. To post the unposted source documents in the current period, follow these steps:

1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
2. Go to the Closing Cockpit View and select the Source Documents sub view.
3. In the Source Documents, select the option Unposted Source Documents in the Show view and click Go button.
4. A list of all Unposted Source Documents will appear, select your unposted document where you see that error message.
5. Then, click Action button and then select View Business Transaction.
6. Now Business Transaction for Accounting window will open with that Document and then click on Post To Another Period.

B. To post the unposted source document in the old/past period, follow these steps:

1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
2. View the Common Task and open the Open and Close Periods sub view.
3. Enter the required selection parameter like Company ID, Set of Books etc. and click Go button.
4. Select your period which is blocked for posting and then click Open Period.
5. Your blocked period will open now, you can open the Period for Operational Postings.
6. Finally click Save and Close button.

After performing these above mentioned steps, system will allow you to post these unposted source documents manually in the old/past period. As it is mentioned in the step (A) how to post unposted source document manually, there you have to click Post in the Business Transaction for Accounting window. This will post these unposted documents in the old/past Period (current period).

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