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Last Updated: 2025-04-04
Concept: Limitations on Processing Allocation Plans

Concept: Limitations on Processing Allocation Plans

Workday won’t pick up changes to posted source journal lines after the line is allocated. Consider:
  • If you unpost or correct a journal after it is allocated, the allocation plan run won’t be canceled or reprocessed. You must manually cancel the plan run or adjust the allocation by creating an accounting journal.
  • To ensure changes to source journal lines are picked up, Workday recommends you enable the
    Always Reverse Operational and Noncontrolling Interest Journals
    and
    Always Reverse Accounting and Accounting Center Summary Journals
    options on the
    Edit Tenant Setup - Financials
    task. The allocation plan will allocate the reversal during the next run.
Ledger allocations always update the existing allocation journal, even when you enable the
Always Reverse Accounting and Accounting Center Summary Journals
option in your tenant settings. Consider:
  • If you rerun or cancel a ledger allocation and any of the resulting journal lines included an allocation pool worktag, you must manually cancel the allocation plan run that processed the resulting journal lines, or create an accounting journal to adjust the allocation.
  • If your ledger allocation results will subsequently be processed by an allocation plan, Workday recommends that you don’t finalize the ledger allocations until you fully verify the allocation plan runs.
  • You might want to separate your plan processing into 2 runs. First process your allocation plan for the
    Allocation
    journal source, and then process your plan for any remaining journal sources. Doing this will limit the number of transactions to be reversed or canceled if you need to cancel the allocation plan run.
When operational or accounting journals are reversed, the allocation plan will allocate the reversal using the active pool settings. If allocation pool options, statistics, or override rules change after the original journal was processed, the reversal might be allocated differently than the original journal line.