"This voucher number already exists" when trying to open a saved Payables Invoice

By Steve Endow

Tonight I'm testing some changes to a GP VS Tools AddIn that I developed.

I apparently had a bug in a line of the AddIn code that caused GP to crash while I was editing a Payables Invoice.

So I fixed the bug, recompiled, and opened GP again, clearing out my old login record.

Strangely, when I opened the Payables Transaction Entry window and clicked on the 'last' record button, nothing happened.  Using the First/Previous/Next/Last buttons wasn't bringing up my test invoice.  Odd.

I then tried the lookup button next to the voucher number field.  There was the invoice.  Hmmm.

But when I tried to select the invoice to open it, I received this message.

Um, ya, of course the voucher number already exists!  It's a saved voucher!

So apparently the GP crash caused some problem that is preventing GP from opening the voucher.

To start my detective work, I closed the Payables Transaction Entry window, and I checked DEX_LOCK, SY00800, and SY00801.  Nothing.

Then I opened the window again and traced the SQL activity that occurred when I selected the saved voucher.  Nothing obvious that I could decipher.

I then queried PM00400 and saw a small oddity--voucher 680 had a blank record, and I hadn't attempted to save it.  It wasn't obvious if that might be related, but it does look like an invalid record.

I also noticed that the REBILL batch to which the invoice belongs has a transaction count of 2, even though there is only one transaction in the batch.  I've done lots of testing and had several GP crashes, so I am guessing the transaction count was already wrong.

So, as a last resort, I entered a new voucher so that I could compare the data for that new record to my problem voucher.

And that's when I saw an issue.

Voucher 680 had a document status of 0.  Even though the voucher had been previously saved, when GP crashed, it somehow caused the document status for the voucher number to be set to 0 in the PM Keys table.

I can proudly say that I have crashed GP hundreds, nay, thousands of times with my test code, and have never seen this issue.

So I set the DCSTATUS value to 1 and tried opening the voucher.  Nope.  Same error.

So then I queried PM10000 to see if I could find any odd values.

I found that the PSTGSTUS field was indicating that the voucher was being edited.  Which makes sense.

After setting the posting status back to 20, I was finally able to open the voucher again.

That was a fun waste of 30 minutes.

It'll teach me to never have a bug again.  My first and only bug.

Steve Endow is a Microsoft MVP for Dynamics GP and a Dynamics GP Certified IT Professional in Los Angeles.  He is the owner of Precipio Services, which provides Dynamics GP integrations, customizations, and automation solutions.

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