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Can someone tell me how an end-user is supposed to manage recurring postings when the month (period) end falls on a non-working day?
Take as an example a recurring posting that executes on the 31st of the month, which happens to be the (sub) period end date in the financial calendar.
If the 31st is a Saturday, like 31st May 2008, then the users are not presented with the list of recurring postings until Monday 2nd. However, it then seems to be impossible to post to the 30th or 31st, i.e. the period where you want the posting. B1 always creates a journal with a posting date of <today>.
If you look for recurring postings in advance, say on the 30th, you just get told that "There are no recurrent transactions to be executed today".
So you cannot execute them in advance and you cannot backdate the posting date.
The only workaround that I can find is to manually create a journal using the recurring template then remove the recurring posting without executing it.
Is there nothing better?
Regards,
Douglas

Hi Douglas,
try this workaround published in our January newsletter:
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=23101714
A company has set up recurring postings to be proposed for execution on particular days of the month. The company does not trade on the weekend. A recurring posting is scheduled for execution for example on a Saturday. The company accountant wants to change it to the following Monday. How can this be achieved?
Solution (Note 1114120):
Go to Financials -> Recurring Postings & click on 'Confirmation List'.
Identify the postings that need a date different from the current system date.
Go to Financials -> Journal Entry to open a new journal entry (JE).
In 'Template Type' in the header of the JE select 'Recurring Posting'.
The adjacent field 'Template' will be active, select the appropriate template code for the first recurring posting to have a different posting date.
The JE is populated automatically with the data from the template & the posting date can be changed before the JE is added.
The so created JE replaces the proposed instance of the recurring posting. The proposed recurring posting must now be removed.
In the confirmation window select the appropriate JE & click on 'Remove'.
The system message 'Delete selected Postings? - Remove/Cancel' appears. Click on 'Remove' to delete the appropriate proposed posting(s).
All the best,
Kerstin

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