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3286941 - Error message "Only a single period or an interval of periods can be open" when opening a new Fiscal Year

Symptom

  • When scheduling a job in "Manage Posting Periods - Cost Accounting" app closing period 12 2022 and opening period 01 2023 the error message MANAGE_POSTINGPERIOD022 is prompted.
  • Error message "Only a single period or an interval of periods can be open"

Environment

  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Manage Posting Periods - Cost Accounting
  2. Schedule a job for CO related Periods 
  3. For example 2022 12 to 2023 01 
  4. Error message "Only a single period or an interval of periods can be open" MANAGE_POSTINGPERIOD022 

Cause

The long text of the error explains; 

Diagnosis
You are trying to open or close posting periods and the result is that the remaining open periods do not form an interval.

Procedure
Either a single period or an interval of periods can be open. For example, either period 2 or periods 2 - 6 can be open, but periods 2, 4, and 6 cannot be the only open 

Resolution

There exists also special periods 13,14,15,16. 
So when trying to open period 01 in 2023, you get the error, that open periods would not form interval, because 13,14,15,16 were closed in 2022.

For more information on Special Adjustment Periods please refer to SAP Help Documentation link

See Also

3088208 - Manage Posting Periods App error "Only a single period or an interval of periods can be open"

Keywords

MANAGE_POSTINGPERIOD 022, F4684  , KBA , FI-FIO-GL-PER , Periodic Activities Applications in General Ledger , FI-GL-GL , Basic Functions , FI-FIO-GL-PER-2CL , Periodic Activities Applications in General Ledger (PubC) , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions