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title: "Importing Journals"
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How to Import Journal Transactions To import Journals into Frameworks. perform the following: Click  and navigate to  General Ledger > Transaction Processing > Journal Entry  from the navigation tree. Click  to create a new journal entry. Refer to the  Create and Post a Journal Entry  Operator Guide for more information. From the  Journal Entry Maintenance  screen, click  to open the  Import Journal  scheduled tasks screen. Click   to export a .csv template in the required format to import the GL journal entries: Account Number Narration Debit Credit BAS Analysis Company To Post Integer (Mandatory)  text decimal decimal text text integer Update the .csv file with the required journal import details and  Save . Click  and choose the file created in the above steps and then click the  Upload  button. Once the .csv file has been up uploaded next to  Import File:  it will display the filename that is going to be imported. Confirm the processing options by enabling   the  Report Only  checkbox (enabled by default) to produce a report only of the changes to be made without processing the changes themselves. Click the  Schedule  tab. The scheduled task is defaulted to run  One Time  and is set to run at the  current system date and time . If you are performing a large import you might want to delay the import to not impact performance. To do this update the  Start date  and  time  or use the date finder   icon to search for an appropriate date and time to run the task. Select the task notification options to  send a notification  or  send an email  once the import has run. Click   to import the .csv file. An information box will pop up advising that the task has been submitted. Click on  OK. On the  Output  page, under the  Generated Reports  section, click on the  reports  links to review the import. If the  Report Only  option was enabled   and there were no errors in the generated report click   and repeat the above and disable   Report Only . If there were any errors in the generated report, resolve the errors before importing and possibly run the report only option until it is error-free. Once the task has been completed, click on the  Journal Entry  screen tab and click   to view the imported transactions Make any required adjustments and click   or  . Additional Information Refer to the  Journal Entry Dashboard  and  Journal Entry Maintenance  User Manual for more information. The below system settings may be used to customise the functionality of your Frameworks instance. System Settings - Flags Flag Purpose FWJourPnt Default for Printing a Journal System Setting - Numeric Setting Purpose FWGlWrnDays Provide warning on GL journal invoices dated outside the number of days Refer to the  General Ledger Related System Settings  Administrator Guide for more information.