Negative quantities when entering transaction

When trying to enter negative quantities on a transaction, be it timesheets, resource or material, the system will give a red line error message indicating the negative entries are not permitted.

This has been done as we believe that negative quantity transactions are not an ideal business process. In general, they are used to correct transactions; however, there are other tools in the system to correct invalid entries, such as cancelling the original lines and entering correct lines.

However, in situations where there is a need for negative quantities on lines, the following script can be run against the database to change a setting and allow the system to accept negative quantities.

UPDATE ENPRISE_JOBCOST_SETUP
SET ALLOWNEGATIVEENTRY='Y'

This script will need to be run on each database where the functionality is required.