How External Commitment Transactions are Imported
The Project Unprocessed Commitment Transaction service validates external commitment transactions. Upon successful validation, it derives the list of transaction sources and projects from the validated transactions, imports the new set of external commitment transactions, and reports their status.
Settings That Affect Import of External Commitment Transactions
Settings at the following levels affect the import of external commitment transactions:
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Transaction source
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Document
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Document entry
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Project type
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Expenditure type
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Project and task
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Transaction controls
How External Commitment Transactions Are Imported
When you import external commitment transactions using the Project Unprocessed Commitment Transaction service, it performs a series of processing steps. The following tasks listed in the table are performed in these steps.
External Commitment Transaction Importing Tasks |
Description |
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Validate external commitment transactions using the Project Unprocessed Commitment Transaction service |
As an initial step of importing external commitment transactions into Project Costing Cloud, data entry, business rule, and transaction control validations are performed when you import external commitment transactions using the Project Unprocessed Commitment Transaction service. |
Derive transaction sources and projects list from the successfully validated external commitment transactions |
After successful validation of all external commitment transactions, the application derives the transaction sources and list of projects to be checked for and identifies any existing commitment transactions to be deleted. |
Delete or retain existing external commitment transactions for the derived transaction sources and list of projects |
You can either delete the existing commitment transactions and insert new commitment transactions or add the new commitment transactions to the existing commitment transactions without purging them. |
Display the status of imported external commitment transactions |
Displays the status of imported external commitment transactions, for example, successfully imported or resulted in error. |