Protocol Settings by Financial Company (tfgld0633m000)

Field Information

Financial Company

The code of the financial company for which the protocol setting is defined.

Name

The description or name of the code.

Assign Base on

The date based on which the protocol number is assigned.

Allowed values

Transaction Entry Date

Finalization Date

Note: 

• By default, this field is set to Transaction Entry Date.
• The value selected in this field is the primary criteria for the protocol number generation, if the Base on Fiscal Period check box is cleared.

Base on Fiscal Period

Indicates whether the fiscal period of the transaction is considered for sequence number assigning. If this check box is selected, the period number are considered for assigning the sequence numbers. The documents that belongs to a lower period number must have a lower sequence number. Activating this option ensures the numbering continuity within specific fiscal periods (months). If this check box is cleared, period numbers are ignored while assigning sequence numbers. Activating this option can result in numbering gaps within a period.

Protocol Number Initialization

The basis on which the protocol number initialization is determined.

Allowed values

Fiscal Year

Fiscal Period

Use Prefix

If this check box is selected, the two-digit Prefix is added to the protocol reference while assigning the protocol number to the documents in Assign Protocol Numbers to Documents (tfgld0235m000) session.

Prefix

The two-digit number that is added as a prefix to the protocol reference during assigning protocol number to the documents in the Assign Protocol Numbers to Documents (tfgld0235m000) session. Example: The prefix can be maximum of two digits and the company number is four. So they cannot be equal, but when you have a company range such as 420, 421, and 422, you can use prefixes 20, 21, and 22 to indicate each individual company.

Protocol Format

The format in which the protocol number is displayed. Example: XXXYYYYPP999999. Here, the protocol code is represented by the XXX positions, fiscal year is represented by the YYYY positions, fiscal period is represented by PP, and 999999 holds the protocol number with leading zeros. (Example of a protocol reference with this format is: PUR201503000079)

Errors and Warnings

The information about the warning and errors.

Note: 

• The errors must be resolved before you execute Assign Protocol Numbers to Documents (tfgld0235m000) session.
• The warning message advises the user about the problem and can be ignored.