How To Fix PH155 - Country assignment for archiving group & and personnel no. & incompatible

PH155 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: PH - PA: Archiving & Reorganization

• Message number: 155

• Message text: Country assignment for archiving group & and personnel no. & incompatible

What causes this issue?

You have tried to assign a personnel number to an archiving group.
However, this personnel number's country assignment is different from
the archiving group's country assignment.
The conditions that regulate data archiving differ from country to
country. Therefore, you can only archive personnel numbers together if
they have the same country assignment. This country assignment must be
the same as the archiving group's country assignment.

System Response

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

How to fix this error?

Create a separate archiving group for each country.

Procedure for System Administrators

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message PH155 - Country assignment for archiving group & and personnel no. & incompatible ?

  The SAP error message PH155 indicates that there is an issue with the country assignment for the archiving group and personnel number in the context of archiving HR data. This error typically arises when there is a mismatch between the country settings in the personnel data and the archiving group settings.
  
  Cause:
  
  Incompatible Country Assignment: The personnel number you are trying to archive is assigned to a country that is not compatible with the archiving group defined in the system.
  
  Configuration Issues: The archiving group may not be properly configured to handle personnel records from the specified country.
  Data Integrity Issues: There may be inconsistencies in the master data or configuration settings that lead to this incompatibility.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  
  Check Archiving Group Configuration:
  
  Go to the configuration settings for the archiving group in SAP (transaction code SPRO).
  Ensure that the archiving group is correctly set up to include the country of the personnel number you are trying to archive.
  
  
  
  Verify