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Imposed Restriction Status for Approved Payment Journal Batches

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Hello, I have a payment journal batch approval workflow but after the batch is approved, the approval status changes to Imposed Restriction instead of Approved.

Can someone please help me figure how why this is happening and how to resolve this issue?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    102,763 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Hi, hope the following can give you some hints.

    imposed restriction approval status

     

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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    OussamaSabbouh Profile Picture
    18,639 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Hello,

    Imposed Restriction means the workflow’s Add record restriction response is still active; it does not necessarily mean the approval entry was rejected. Check Approval Entries for the batch and confirm that no entries remain Open/Created because all required approvers must approve before the restriction is removed. Your condition Pending Approvals: <2 is also too broad; configure the final An approval request is approved step with Pending Approvals = 0 and include Approve the approval request, notification if required, and Remove record restriction; for multiple approvers, use a separate Pending Approvals > 0 step to send the next approval. I recommend disabling this workflow, recreating it from the standard General Journal Batch Approval Workflow template, changing only the journal template/batch conditions, then canceling and resending the affected batch because correcting the workflow might not clear an already-created restriction automatically.

    Regards,
    Oussama Sabbouh

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    Grigorios Mavrogeorgis Profile Picture
    3,041 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Hi, Imposed Restriction isn't really a status of its own, it only means the Restricted Record entry for that batch is still sitting there. So the approval went through but Remove record restriction never ran. Search Restricted Records in Tell Me, you'll probably find the batch still listed.

    The responses on your approved step look fine to me. I'd look at the condition instead - Pending Approvals: <2. Standard MS-GJBAPW has 0 there, meaning fire only when nobody is left to approve. With <2 and more than one approver in the chain that step can be skipped completely, and then nothing removes the restriction.

    Open Workflow Step Instances, or the archived ones, and check whether that step ever completed or just stayed active.

     

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    Regards,
    Grigorios Mavrogeorgis
    Business Central Consultant & AL Developer

    Work: Gmsoft Limited
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    AndrewThomas81 Profile Picture
    2,374 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Check the restricted records table for the journal.

    If you have modified the workflow from template, I would check back all events and responses.

     

    Kind Regards

     

    Andrew Thomas FCCA MCP

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