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Hello Everyone,
I went to go enter an AP Bill this morning, but I get the following message:
GL Error: Financial Period ’10-2017’ is inactive.
But my invoice is dated 10/4/2017 and I want to post it into October 2017.
I tried typing 10-2017 into the Post Period field, but it erases itself as soon as I move out of the field.
When I click the magnifying glass lookup, October doesn’t even appear in the list.
Then, I tried leaving the Post Period field empty, but I get the following error when I try to save the AP Bill:
Error: ‘Post Period’ cannot be empty.
Can anyone help me get this AP Bill posted into October 2017?
Hi Piggy,
The reason you are getting this message is because the Active column is not marked for October 2017 in the Financials Periods screen:
Whoever controls the financials periods in your organization just needs to mark that Active checkbox and you should be good to go.
Thank you Tim. That fixed the problem.
I guess it’s a good idea to keep future periods inactive to prevent accidental entries into future periods (like October 2018). But I just need to remember to activate the next period after we close a month.