I was doing some training for a client last month where I was showing them how to process on the general ledger in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and encountered an error when we were looking at recurring journals for accruals:
There is nothing to post because the journal does not contain a quantity or amount
Not a terribly helpful error message as there were several lines on the journal and we’d successfully posted a couple of months of the journal already; however, with a little thought, I realised that this could be a date issue as each posting had wound the date forward one month.
I opened the My Settings page and changed the Work Date into June:
Another attempt at posting the recurring journal was successful, confirming that when posting a journal, the posting date must be earlier than the work date.
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Great and simple explanation. This has resolved the issue. Many thanks. I spent about 2 hours to figure this out, have looked various other response but your’s was spot on.
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For me, I am using Recurring General Journals in BC V24, I have the Workdays as 23 May 2024, and BC only allows me to post the transactions only when I have the posting date as 31 March 2024 or earlier, even if I choose 1 April 2024 or anything older as posting date, it still gives me error(There is nothing to post). I don’t understand this behavior, did someone else also facing this kind of issue ?
What accounting periods do you have created?
Hi Ian, Thanks for replying back, I am using Jan – Dec as accounting period, but the strange thing is, it is working on BC V23.5 but not working on BC V24, so may be it is a new feature or Bug by Microsoft, Can you try on your end and see if that works for you on BC V24 ?
Hi Kuljeet,
It is working fine for me on v24. Is your v24 a copy of v23?
What recurring frequency are you using?
I have tried both Fixed and variable, nothing works for me, i even tried the same in my other client BC v 24 environment, but they behave the same, wondering how it is working for you.
Hi Ian, Can you please check if your Accounting periods for year 2024 are closed or open ?
Future periods are open.