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Payment journal warning message about balancing account not specified

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In my payment journal for some checks, some lines have a balancing account no populated with bank account, and some don't with nothing selected. Even filtered, when posting checks with only balancing account no present, I get a warning message: 
A balancing account is not specified for one or more lines. If you print checks without specifying balancing accounts you will not be able to void the checks, if needed. Do you want to continue?
 
Is there a way to disable this pop up warning to not appear? Is there a way to get it this message to not appear at all? But I still want to be able to have unposted lines with check specified without bank account in the balancing account, as not 100% certain yet on the amount or the bank account to issue payment out of.
 
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Paul
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    Teagen Boll Profile Picture
    3,412 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Hi Paul,
     
    In your General Journal Batch setup for that batch in the payment journal you could specify a balancing account as a default - you could always set this as a dummy bank account (call it PLACEHOLDER or something similar, mine below is CHECKING):
     
    Then in your payment journal it will automatically populate that balancing account no.:
    If you wanted to remove that warning message itself it would be a small customization a developer/partner would need to complete.
     
    Best,
    Teagen Boll
    Social: LinkedIn
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    Grigorios Mavrogeorgis Profile Picture
    2,835 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Hi Paul,
    As far as I know there is no setup switch for this one, it is not one of the notifications you can turn off in My Notifications. It comes from the check printing report itself when it finds lines without a Bal. Account No., so the only way to kill it properly would be with an extension, and honestly for a confirm dialog that is a lot of work for little gain.
    The thing is the warning is telling you the truth. Without the bank account on the line BC has nothing to build the check ledger entry against, so if you later need to void, you cannot. That is exactly the case you describe with the lines you are not sure about yet.
    What I would do instead is keep the undecided ones in a separate batch. Print and post from the batch where everything has the bank filled in, and leave the draft lines sitting in the other one. No warning, and you still keep your unposted lines as they are.
     
    Glad to help - follow up if anything is unclear.  
    ►  If this solved it, marking it verified helps others too.      
    Regards,
    Grigorios Mavrogeorgis
    Business Central Consultant & AL Developer

    Work: Gmsoft Limited
    Blog:  insidebusinesscentral
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gregorymavrogeorgis

     

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