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3817392 - BR-DE-18 when importing e-invoices due to missing line break in BT-20 (CII and UBL) - SAP DRC Germany

Symptom

  • When sending electronic invoices using Document and Reporting Compliance, no validation error is reported internally, but the receiver’s validation returns BR-DE-18 on import.
  • The issue occurs with both CII and UBL invoices.
  • The cash discount information in Payment terms (BT-20) is missing the required line break after the final #.
  • Affected elements: CII: ram:SpecifiedTradePaymentTerms/ram:Description; UBL: n1:PaymentTerms/n2:Note.
  • Error code: BR-DE-18.


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Environment

  • SAP ERP
  • SAP S/4HANA
  • SAP Document and Reporting Compliance service

Product

SAP Document and Reporting Compliance service all versions ; SAP ERP all versions ; SAP S/4HANA all versions

Keywords

BR-DE-18, BT-20, payment terms, CII, UBL, line break, newline, XML, Skonto, eDocument, EDOC_COCKPIT, Document and Reporting Compliance, DRC, XRechnung, validation error, Localization, Localisation, eInvoice, eDoc_cockpit , KBA , CA-GTF-CSC-EDO-DE , Germany , Problem

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