How to Prevent Postings to Closed or Complete Jobs in the Sage 100 Job Cost Module
Summary
How to prevent postings to Closed or Complete Jobs in Job Cost
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Resolution
Purge Job to Job Cost History
Use Job Status Maintenance to prevent posting to Closed or Completed jobs
- Open Modules, Job Cost, Setup, Job Cost Options
- Click on Additional Tab
- Verify that Define Job Statuses Allowed in Entry is checked
- Press Accept and close the Job Cost Options window
- Open Modules, Job Cost, Setup, Job Status Maintenance
- Select Module Code
- Select Data Entry type
- Deselect the following Job Statuses to Allow
- Complete
- Closed
- Press Accept
Prevent users from overriding the prompt “You have entered a job number with a status of Complete. Do you want to proceed?”
- Modify the user’s Role in Library Master, Main, Role Maintenance
- Select Role, Security Events tab, open Job Cost
- Deselect Allow to Override Status Selections in Job Status Maintenance, and press Accept