Preventing Distribution of Accounting Entries for External Groups

PeopleSoft Receivables supports multiple AR lines for each pending item, so the system bases all subsequent accounting entries that affect the PeopleSoft Receivables accounts on the AR lines in the Item Distribution table (PS_ITEM_DST).

Although you may choose not to distribute accounting information for billing transactions from PeopleSoft Receivables to the general ledger system, you must have at least one row in PS_ITEM_DST that represents the AR line. If you indicate that you do not want transactions with this entry type distributed to PeopleSoft General Ledger, the system sets the GL_DISTRIB_ STATUS field on PS_PENDING_DST to I (ignore). This setting instructs the Journal Generator Application Engine process (FS_JGEN) to skip this row when it creates journal entries.

When you convert existing items or interface them from your billing system, you may want to prevent distribution of accounting entries for a specific entry type even though you want to enable distribution when you record the entry online. Use the ALLOW_DST flag on PS_GROUP_CONTROL for this purpose.