How To Fix 5V701 - Specify an official language for this company and subarea

5V701 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: 5V - HR: Messages for Belgium

• Message number: 701

• Message text: Specify an official language for this company and subarea

What causes this issue?

The system cannot determine the official language for the employee.

System Response

The system has not found the official language that is to be used for
legal and state-related correspondance sent to the employee.

How to fix this error?

Check that the company (table T5B1S) and subarea (table T5B1P) values
have been fully defined in Customizing for <DS:SIMG.OHABUM14B>Maintain
Personnel Subareas and Company Codes</>.

Procedure for System Administrators

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

5V701 - Details

• The SAP error message 5V701 indicates that an official language has not been specified for a particular company code and its associated subarea. This is a common issue that can arise during the configuration of a company code in SAP, particularly when setting up localization or when certain functionalities require a defined language.
  
  Cause:
  The error occurs because:
  
  The company code or subarea has not been assigned an official language in the system.
  The language settings are required for various functionalities, such as reporting, documentation, and user interfaces.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve the error, you need to specify an official language for the company code and subarea. Here are the steps to do this:
  
  
  Access the SAP Customizing Implementation Guide (IMG):
  
  Use transaction code SPRO to access the SAP Customizing Implementation Guide.
  
  
  
  Navigate to the Language Settings:
  
  Go to Enterprise Structure > Definition > Financial Accounting > Edit, Copy, Delete, Check Company Code.
  
  
  
  Select the Company Code:
  
  Find and select the company code