How To Fix TU244 - Alternative portion &1 entered; see long text

SAP Error Message - Details

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: TU - Billing/Scheduling/Budget Billing

• Message number: 244

• Message text: Alternative portion &1 entered; see long text

What causes this issue?

You have entered an alternative portion in the contract. If this
contract has a budget billing plan, this budget billing plan must be
adjusted using transaction EA65 (adjust budget billing plans to changed
billing dates). After this adjustment, the end of the billing period
corresponds with the current valid billing period. This is important
for determination of the budget billing periods when creating a new
budget billing plan.
The system does not check whether the data for the meter reading
schedule records (see meter reading unit in installation) corresponds
with the billing schedule records for this alternative portion.
If you enter an alternative portion in the contract, the system does
not check whether this alternative portion has the same period length
as the original portion. The original portion is specified in the meter
reading unit in the installation.
After you have entered the alternative portion, the system performs
user-defined checks to see whether the contract is billed and invoiced
without problems.

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?

Compare the period length of the alternative portion with original
portion &V4&.
If you want to use the alternative portion despite the different length
of the portion, you must change the allocation of the meter reading
accordingly in installation &V2&.
The period lengths of the meter reading unit and the alternative
portion must be the same.
If there is a current meter reading plan, you must <DS:TRAN.EA65>adjust
budget billing plans to changed billing dates</> after you have entered
and saved the alternative portion in the contract.

Procedure for System Administrators

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