Unchecking the Field Account Assignment in WBS

[Former Member]

Hello,

We have a scenario, wherein we need to uncheck the field " Account Assignment" in the WBS master data.

But the issue is , the filed is compressed.

How can we achieve it, do we need consider whether there any postings done or can we uncheck it in the middle of financial year

Regards,

Nitin

[Former Member]

If cost has been posted onto the subject WBS then the account assignment indicator cannot be unchecked i.e. it remains greyed out. You wont be able to change it even via CNMASS. The only option left could be to cancel the transactions that led to the cost assignment (please note a reversal means another transaction that only reverses the effect but does not remove the line items altogether, therefore a reversal does not remove the AA indicator).

Also note that the cost can be both actual or statistical in nature. Even settlement from lower level WBS to higher level WBS leads to greying of the indicator.

Can you kindly state why you need to perform such function?

Regards,

Ammar

[Former Member]

Hi,

After transferring actual costs from WBS elements, field will be turned to editable mode. if not you can uncheck using button "Mass change" in project builder for selected WBS element.

Regards,

PSR

[Former Member]

Hey Nitin,

If the checkbox is grayed out, it means costs have already been posted to that WBS element, in which case you cannot uncheck it in the middle of the fiscal year. You could try creating a validation to prevent new postings to that WBS element, if that works for you.