How To Fix PLM_AUDIT_ARCH007 - No residence rule found for application &1 and rule variant &2

PLM_AUDIT_ARCH007 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: PLM_AUDIT_ARCH - PLM Audit Management: Archiving

• Message number: 007

• Message text: No residence rule found for application &1 and rule variant &2

What causes this issue?

You are attempting to block data that belongs to business partners. The
system cannot determine a residence rule for this data in application
&V1& and rule variant &V2&.

System Response

You cannot run the program.

How to fix this error?

Contact your system administrator.
Note that customers and vendors are mapped as business partners in audit
management. For customers, the application name for the purpose check is
AUDIT_MGMT_CUS. For vendors, the application name for the purpose check
is AUDIT_MGMT_VEN.

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.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message PLM_AUDIT_ARCH007 - No residence rule found for application &1 and rule variant &2 ?

  The SAP error message PLM_AUDIT_ARCH007 indicates that there is no residence rule found for a specific application and rule variant in the context of the SAP PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Audit Management module. This error typically arises when the system is trying to archive data but cannot find the necessary configuration to determine how long the data should be retained.
  
  Cause:
  
  Missing Configuration: The most common cause of this error is that the residence rule for the specified application and rule variant has not been defined in the system.
  Incorrect Rule Variant: The rule variant specified in the error message may not exist or may have been incorrectly configured.
  Data Consistency Issues: There may be inconsistencies in the data or configuration that prevent the system from finding the appropriate residence rule.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  
  Define Residence Rules:
  
  Go to the transaction code SARA (Archive Administration).
  Navigate to the relevant application area and check if the residence rules are defined for