How To Fix HRPAY99CALC718 - HR preparation for archiving is currently running for this pers.no.

HRPAY99CALC718 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: HRPAY99CALC - Error Messages from International Payroll

• Message number: 718

• Message text: HR preparation for archiving is currently running for this pers.no.

What causes this issue?

Note the documentation on archiving payroll data (Transaction PU22).
In payroll simulation this is a warning; in a live payroll run this is
a rejection.

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.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message HRPAY99CALC718 - HR preparation for archiving is currently running for this pers.no. ?

  The SAP error message HRPAY99CALC718 indicates that the HR preparation for archiving is currently running for a specific personnel number (pers.no.). This typically means that there is an ongoing process related to archiving HR data for that employee, which prevents other operations from being performed on the same data until the archiving process is completed.
  
  Cause:
  
  Ongoing Archiving Process: The most common cause of this error is that an archiving job is currently processing the HR data for the specified personnel number. This can happen if the archiving job was initiated and is still running.
  Locking Mechanism: SAP uses a locking mechanism to prevent data inconsistencies. If an archiving job is in progress, it locks the relevant data, which leads to this error when other processes try to access it.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  Wait for Completion: The simplest solution is to wait for the archiving process to complete. You can check the status of the archiving job