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2294133 - Exception in Chart of Accounts

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:

  1. Go to Business Configuration work center
  2. Go to Implementation Projects view
  3. For the relevant project, select Open Activity List
  4. In tab Fine-Tune, open the activity Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination
  5. Open activity Edit chart of accounts
  6. Select Add Row and provide the Chart of Accounts XYZ
  7. Select Import from Microsoft Excel
  8. On the Import Chart of Accounts from File screen, select Download Template
  9. Fill the required details and Save the file
  10. Browse for the Import File for Chart of Accounts
  11. Select Import
  12. Select Save
  13. System throws an exception

 

Update manually using the below steps:

  1. Go to Business Configuration work center
  2. Go to Implementation Projects view
  3. For the relevant project, select Open Activity List
  4. In tab Fine-Tune, open the activity Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination
  5. Open activity Edit chart of accounts
  6. Select Add Row and provide the Chart of Accounts XYZ
  7. Select Translate
  8. Choose the Source Language and Target Language from the respective drop-down
  9. Select any structure and maintain the Target Language for the Description
  10. Choose OK
  11. Select Save
  12. 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

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions