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How to unlock Date Locked in Accounting Periods

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Hi All,
Could anybody help me with the following situation:

I wanted to change Accounting Period from period 01.01.17-31.12.17 to 01.07.17-30.06.18. When I re-created the accounting periods, the Date locked flag was automatically set for the first month (01.07.17). Then I wanted to go back to the previous period (01.01.17 - 31.12.17), but I get an error message "Date Locked must be equal to "No" in Accounting Period: Starting Date=01.07.17. Current value is "Yes". I can't change this flag (it is not editable).

Questions:
How did this flag get set automatically?
How can I get this unlocked to change Accounting period?

Thanks in advance

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    Amol Salvi Profile Picture
    Amol Salvi 18,698 on at

    Once accounting period is create then it can not be unlocked or modified. You can continue doing transaction in the database.

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    Community Member on at

    Thank you for your reply, Amol

    I would like to note that first I created an accounting period of 01.01.17 – 31.12.17. and there was not the check mark in the field "Date Locked". Then I was able to delete this accounting period without any problems and create a new accounting period (01.07.17 – 30.06.17)! The program gave me an opportunity to do this. But when I wanted to change accounting period again I wasn’t able to do this as the Date Locked flag was set automatically. Why was it possible to edit the accounting period for the first time?

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    Amol Salvi Profile Picture
    Amol Salvi 18,698 on at

    Straight from MSDN

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../hh169968(v=nav.90).aspx

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