Balance Settings

Some aspects of FinancialForce Accounting are controlled by custom settings. From Setup, click Develop | Custom Settings. You must be signed in with system administrator permissions to perform these tasks. See the Salesforce Help for information on how to maintain custom settings.

Disable actual period validation

Use the following custom setting to control the validation that prevents users from modifying the actual period values on the budgets and balances page. You might want to disable this validation if you have encountered, or expect to encounter, errors while importing a large volume of data to this custom object.

Balance Settings

Field	When selected:
Disable Actual Period Validation	Indicates that you want to disable the default validation on these fields.

Warning:

Do not leave this setting selected for any longer than necessary to upload the budget data as this can compromise data integrity.

Adjust the batch size of the Balance Update processes

Use the following custom settings to adjust the batch size of the two Balance Update modes.

Key: Mode 1 – Budgets and Balances are live data; Mode 2 – Reporting Balances are live data

Balance Settings

Field	Mode	Description
Reporting Balance Update Batch Size	1	The batch size for full or incremental synchronization. Specify an appropriate number of Budget and Balance records to process in each batch job. The default is 200 records.
	2	The batch size for rebuild balances. Specify an appropriate number of Budget and Balance records to process in each batch job. The default is 200 records.
Balance Update Batch Size	1	The batch size for rebuild balances. Specify an appropriate number of Reporting Balance records to process in each batch job. The default is 150 records.
	2	The batch size for full or incremental synchronization. Specify an appropriate number of Reporting Balance records to process in each batch job. The default is 150 records.

Adjust the update threshold of the Balance Update process

Use the following custom settings to adjust the number of balance records above which the two Balance Update processes become a batch job instead of an online one.

Key: Mode 1 – Budgets and Balances are live data; Mode 2 – Reporting Balances are live data

Balance Settings

Field	Mode	Description
Reporting Balance Update Threshold	1	Specify an appropriate number of Budget and Balance records for this threshold. The default is 150 records.
Balance Update Threshold	2	Specify an appropriate number of Reporting Balance records for this threshold. The default is 150 records.

Note:

After clearing the Update Secondary Balances checkbox from an intersect definition that is already in use, you must run a Full Synchronization to remove the existing balances for that intersect. The number of records to process might be significantly larger than when creating balances for the first time, or when updating existing records. So, when setting the Reporting Balance Update Threshold you must consider this scenario and set the number of records accordingly.

Ignore zero values when populating or synchronizing reporting balances

Use the following custom setting to control the treatment of zero values when creating reporting balances from budget and balance records.

Key: Mode 1 – Budgets and Balances are live data; Mode 2 – Reporting Balances are live data

Balance Settings

Field	Mode	Description
Exclude Zero Balances	1	Indicates that you want to ignore zero values in certain circumstances when creating reporting balances from budget and balance records. See About Reporting Balances for more detailed information.
	2	This setting has no effect in Mode 2.