ByDesign SOAP API Cannot send both G/L Account and Cost Center

[x27lu]

Hi, I am getting a really weird problem when trying to populate supplier invoice items using the SOAP API ManageSupplierInvoiceIn call. For some reason, if I populate both the G/L Account using MaintenanceAccountingCodingBlockDistribution.setGeneralLedgerAccountAliasCode and the Cost Center using MaintenanceAccountingCodingBlockDistribution.setAccountingCodingBlockDistribution, the invoice that gets written doesn't have the G/L Account. If I don't send over the Cost Center, then the G/L Account gets populated. I also verified manually that both fields are using values that are compatible with each other. Does anybody know why this happens?

[frank_jahnigen · Accepted solution]

Hello, 

Usually the convention for specifying the Cost Distribution in supplier invoices broadly would follow the scheme below: 

<AccountingCodingBlockDistribution>

    <AccountingCodingBlockAssignment>          

                     <CostCentreID>XYZ</CostCentreID>

                     <GeneralLedgerAccountAliasCode>ABC</GeneralLedgerAccountAliasCode>                  

    </AccountingCodingBlockAssignment>

</AccountingCodingBlockDistribution>

Cost Centre as well as Account Determination would then be reflected in posted invoice. 

Hope this helps, 

Frank

[x27lu · Accepted solution]

Thanks Frank, this worked! I was only setting GeneralLedgerAccountAliasCode in the parent AccountingCodingBlockDistribution. When I also set it in the AccountingCodingBlockAssignment as you have shown, both the G/L Account and Cost Centre ID populated fine.