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3329235 - Unable to Assign Organizaion Unit to Employee Due to Error

Symptom

Unable to assign org unit to Employee throws as a below error:-

  • Organizational unit must be or must be assigned to a Permanent Estb
  • Organizational unit must be or must be assigned to a company

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  • Go to Business Partner data Work Center
  • Go to Employee view
  • Search for Employee
  • Unable to assign the required org unit to the employee
  • It Throws the following error "Organizational unit must be or must be assigned to a Permanent Estb" "Organizational unit must be or must be assigned to a company"

Cause

 You have maintained the validity end date of org unit as '31.12.9999'  ( Here 31.12.9999 is a date format)

Resolution

Change the validity end date for organizational unit to 'Unlimited' from '31.12.9999'.

Keywords

Permanent Estb, Organizational unit , KBA , permanent estb , organizational unit , SRD-HR-PAD , Personnel Administration , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions