SAP Message M8496 - Invoice document still contains messages

Diagnosis
When checking the Logistics invoice document, the system discoverederrors, warning messages or information messages that have not yet beendisplayed on the screen.
The system visualizes the messages that occur using a colored symbol onthe Messages button:

  • Green: The error log contains information messages

  • Yellow: The error log contains warning messages, but may also contain
  • information messages
    • Red: The error log contains error logs, but may also contain warning or
    • information messages.

      Procedure
      For more information on the messages, see the error log.
      Select Messages.
      You can hold invoice documents that contain errors. If you holdinvoice documents, no update occurs in Financial Accounting and thesystem takes no further action, such as creating a letter of complaintor sending a mail to Purchasing. The document remains in the systemwith the status "contains errors" and can be processed further in thefollowing ways:

      • Invoice documents that were called up from the Invoice Overview
      • and held can only be processed further in the Invoice Overview.
        • Invoice documents that were held in the application Create Invoice

        • or Park Invoice can be processed further by calling themfrom the worklist and from the Invoice Overview.
          You can park any invoices containing errors. If error messagesoccur in the error log when you save the parked document and thesemessages have the origin 'Post', you cannot park the invoice.
          If the invoice document is correct and no error messages exist as aresult of the update, result of the update, the system can update thedocument, even if there are still warning and information messages inthe error log.

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