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2557980 - Error Message in Purchase Contract Migration: File Validation Failed. Create an Incident

Symptom

During the migration of Purchase Contracts, the error message is being triggered. 

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign 

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Business Configuration work center.
  2. Go to Implementation Projects view. 
  3. Choose Open Activity List.
  4. Go to Integrate and Extend tab.
  5. Search and open the activity "Migration of Purchasing Contracts". 
  6. Select "Migrate Purchasing Contracts Using the Migration Tool". 
  7. Select the source file. 
  8. Choose Execute Migration.

The error message is triggered: "File Validation Failed. Create an Incident".

    Cause

    There could be many reasons that lead to this issue.

    One of the causes could be the type of Data being entered in the migration template is incorrect. For example, if the type value maintained in field "Discount Value" is not a number (Item-Prices sheet). 

    Resolution

    Maintain the correct Data type in the migration template. 

    For the field Discount Value, maintain the Type as Number or keep it blank. Then the user can re-execute the migration process.

    Keywords

    File validation failed, Migration, Purchasing contracts, Purchase contracts , KBA , AP-PCP-PCT , Purchasing Contract , How To

    Product

    SAP Business ByDesign all versions