Symptom
Your requirement is to maintain the Description for the Chart of Accounts in Business Configuration. But system throws the below exception while saving the Description.
Unexpected error during backend processing
Reproducing the Issue
Import using Microsoft Excel file:
- Go to Business Configuration work center
- Go to Implementation Projects view
- For the relevant project, select Open Activity List
- In tab Fine-Tune, open the activity Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination
- Open activity Edit chart of accounts
- Select Add Row and provide the Chart of Accounts XYZ
- Select Import from Microsoft Excel
- On the Import Chart of Accounts from File screen, select Download Template
- Fill the required details and Save the file
- Browse for the Import File for Chart of Accounts
- Select Import
- Select Save
- System throws an exception
Update manually using the below steps:
- Go to Business Configuration work center
- Go to Implementation Projects view
- For the relevant project, select Open Activity List
- In tab Fine-Tune, open the activity Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination
- Open activity Edit chart of accounts
- Select Add Row and provide the Chart of Accounts XYZ
- Select Translate
- Choose the Source Language and Target Language from the respective drop-down
- Select any structure and maintain the Target Language for the Description
- Choose OK
- Select Save
- System throws an exception
Cause
The data type used for Description field allows only 80 characters in length. But the Account Description which you provided is longer than 80 characters.
Resolution
Adjust the length of Account Description within 80 characters.
Keywords
Account Description, Editing Chart of Accounts, Edit Chart of Accounts , KBA , chart of accounts , account description , editing chart of accounts , edit chart of accounts , BC-SRV-FSI , Fast Search Infrastructure , How To