Symptom
During the creation of an expense report, you notice that it is possible to create an expense report for a non active employee
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Travel and Expenses Work Center > New Expense Report on Behalf
- Enter the Employee ID XXXX
- It is possible to create the expense report for an inactive employee
Cause
The system allows the creation of the expense reports during the validity of the Expense arrangements even for inactive employees in order to support retroactively creation of expense reports in the past for inactive employees.
If you create an expense report or an expense on a date dd.mm.yyyy outside the validity of the expense arrangement the systems throws the error message "current expense arrangement does not allow expense reports with date dd.mm.yyyy.
Resolution
System behavior
If the you want to completely block inactive employee for creation of expense reports, you can block the employee via Information Lifecycle Management - Business Partners - Block Usage
Keywords
expense report, inactive, employee , KBA , SRD-FIN-ERM , Travel and Expense Management , How To