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3557212 - Error occurs when previewing Customer Invoices in Financial Accounting (correspondence type SAP21)

Symptom

The below error occurs when choosing "Preview" or "PDF Preview" customer invoices in Create Correspondence App with type SAP21 (FI Customer Invoices):

"You can only print documents posted from app Create Outgoing Invoices or app Upload Customer Open Items".

"Image/data in this KBA is from SAP internal systems, sample data, or demo systems. Any resemblance to real data is purely coincidental."

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition

Reproducing the Issue

Navigate to Create Correspondence App and input the following details:

  1. Company Code 1010
  2. Correspondence SAP21
  3. Journal Entry 1900000001
  4. Fiscal Year 2024

Create correspondence

Select PDF Preview

PDF preview

Cause

With release 2408 it is possible to print and email FI customer invoices and credit memos in PDF form with the new correspondence type SAP21 (FI Customer Invoices) in the Create Correspondence App. But only documents posted via Create Outgoing Invoices App or Upload Customer Open Items App can be printed. In the case example the selected Journal Entry 19000000001 has document type KR and it is posted via Create Incoming Invoices App. Thus the error is valid.

Resolution

To avoid error and to print customer invoices, use documents which are posted via Create Outgoing Invoices App or Upload Customer Open Items App instead.

See Also

Printing of Customer Invoices in Financial Accounting (FI) | SAP Help Portal

Configuring the Output of FI Customer Invoices | SAP Help Portal

Keywords

create correspondence, SAP21, customer, invoice, DR, print, configuring, output management, service ADS, F0744, F0 744, FB70, F4051, F4 051 , KBA , FI-AR-AR-CR-2CL , Correspondence (Public Cloud) , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions