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 Document Overview

Use

When you change or display a document, the first screen you see is an overview screen containing the most important information from the document header and the line items. You have a display line for each line item. You decide what data is displayed in this line by specifying the line layout. For more information, see Line Layout Variants

Prerequisites

You have entered the document header and the line items.

Features

To display the document overview, from the Enter Accounting Document: Add Line Items screen, choose Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Document overview End of the navigation path .

At the end of the overview, you can see the fields D, with the total debit amounts, and C, with the total credit amounts. The credit entries have a minus sign to the right of the amount. The debit entries have no plus/minus sign.

At the bottom of the Amount column, the system displays the difference between the debits and the credits. To post a document, the balance of debits and credits must be zero.

You may use any of the following editing options:

  • Changing the Line Layout of the Document Overview

Using Start of the navigation path Settings Next navigation step Line layout End of the navigation path , you can call up a list of the defined line layout variants and choose one for displaying your document overview.

To edit line layout variants, choose Start of the navigation path General ledger Next navigation step Environment Next navigation step User parameters Next navigation step Editing options. End of the navigation path

  • Changing the Display Currency in the Document Overview

If you work with several currencies, you can switch between items in local currency and items in document currency within the document overview by using Start of the navigation path Settings Next navigation step Display currency. End of the navigation path

  • Entering the Partner Business Area

You can enter a trading partner business area from the document overview before you post the document. This business area is then defaulted in all G/L account items which are not generated automatically and to which no partner business area has yet been assigned.