Hopefully someone can give an answer on this quickly as it is halting the processing of transactions for my client. They use project accounting, and they just updated to GP 2016 R2. With the upgrade, they lost the ability to modify distributions at the document level for their purchasing receiving entry. Error pops up and says to go to the item detail distributions. They opened a case with MS, and were instructed to use a workaround. Without going into too much detail, the goal is that they want to break out their COGS amount between two accounts. The error pops if they try to enter any account or change any amount or really if they do anything in the distribution window, EXCEPT if they add an account and use the distribution type of OTHER, then it works. This is how MS instructed them to do it, however the concern is what these distribution types actually affect. Is this going to cause issues elsewhere in the system or with reporting if they are now using this distribution type of OTHER? Does anyone know where I can find documentation explaining what is affected by the distribution types?
For example, before upgrade, they would have distributions looking like this:
ACCT TYPE DR CR
1000 COGS 50.00
1001 COGS 25.00
2000 Contra Account 75.00
After upgrade, they look like this:
ACCT TYPE DR CR
1000 COGS 75.00
2000 Contra Account 75.00
1000 OTHER 25.00
1001 OTHER 25.00
As you can see, before when they wanted to split the COGS to two different accounts, they'd simply add the other account in the distribution and change the amounts. AFTER the upgrade, they are stuck with the COGS and CONTRA account as-is, so only way to break it out to another account is to credit it back from the original COGS account and debit it into a new one. But as I said, can't change anything in that window and can't add anything to that window, UNLESS it has the type of OTHER. So simply wondering what affect this will have on everything.
Thank you,
Tanner
