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wJack
New Contributor II
2 years ago

Journals calculate and post Dt/Ct

Hi All I am trying to build BR (Finance or Extender (General Server), activated by Dashboard button) to calculate Journal (based on two different Cubes) and post to Dt or Ct ('if' statement to defin...
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    JackLacava
    2 years ago

    If you're using Calculate, there is no concept of debit or credit - you just target the accounts you want to write to. However, this will not create proper journals, it will literally enter values in the intersections.

    If you want proper transactions recorded as Journals, you will have to use the functions like BRApi.Journals.Data.ImportAndProcessJournals (which works with files) or the ones under BRApi.Journals.Metadata.

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JackLacava
Honored Contributor
2 years ago

If you're using Calculate, there is no concept of debit or credit - you just target the accounts you want to write to. However, this will not create proper journals, it will literally enter values in the intersections.

If you want proper transactions recorded as Journals, you will have to use the functions like BRApi.Journals.Data.ImportAndProcessJournals (which works with files) or the ones under BRApi.Journals.Metadata.