Combination Editing for Budget and Budget Adjustment Journals

You can edit commitment control budget journals for ChartField combinations online separately from posting or during the batch posting processing as a part of the Budget Processor (FS_BP) Application Engine process, which edits and posts budget journal entries.

Even if you do not have adjustment security authorization, you can run combination editing online separately from posting to verify that a budget journal passes combination editing prior to posting. However, there is no separate batch request page to run the Edit ChartFields process to perform combination edits as a batch process separately from the posting batch process.

By running the Edit Chartfield process online before posting, you can resolve errors that might exist before they cause delay in the posting process. The process updates the line status to provide visibility to the lines that failed.

A budget entry that fails combination editing stops further processing during commitment control batch journal posting. If the ChartField combinations are not valid, any further processing for budget-related errors is irrelevant until the ChartField errors are corrected. Either all lines pass and the entire journal is posted, or if one or more lines fail, nothing is posted. You can view the Budget Errors page to see details about errors requiring correction.

If you automatically generate parent budget journals from child budget journals, no combination editing is performed by the system for the parent budget entries generated further up the budget hierarchy. When combination editing is performed for the originating journals that you make for the child budget and the combinations are found valid at this originating entry level, they are also considered valid for parent budget journals that are automatically generated by the system at the higher budget levels.

See Using Combination Editing with Budget, Transfer, and Adjustment Journals.

SeeApplication Fundamentals: Understanding ChartField Combination Editing .