Restricted Accounts, Stamped Documents

Restricted Accounts, Stamped Documents

The auditors flagged a handful of G/L accounts — legal settlements, restructuring reserves — as restricted: nothing may reach them without a controlled document number issued by the audit desk, and those numbers always start with CTRL-. Journal lines are keyed in by many people and posted by more than one routine, so the rule cannot live in a page or in one posting report — it has to sit where every general journal line is checked on its way to the ledger. That check is base application code you cannot modify; extend it from the outside.

Requirements

1. Create a table extension for the G/L Account table with a field named Restricted of type Boolean. Grading reads and writes it in code — no page work is needed.
2. Put your rule in a new codeunit — its name is up to you (not graded); the starter calls it "Journal Check Rule".
3. The rule guards both sides of a general journal line: when "Account Type" is G/L Account and "Account No." names a restricted account, or "Bal. Account Type" is G/L Account and "Bal. Account No." does, the line may only post if its "Document No." starts with CTRL- — the first five characters, so a CTRL- buried in the middle does not count.