Payroll Problem

[bghudson]

To review payroll before going through the posting process I always select the Edit/Validation, and the Trial Post, however I accidentally selected Gross to Net. Gross to Net is the first step in the posting process. When I realized what I had done I canceled each report, but that didn’t help matters because it actually started the posting process. Now when I select Edit/Validation it comes up with the message PAYROLL STEPS HAVE NOT BEEN CLEARED IN TIME ENTRY. When I select Trial Post all the information is there. If I try to go into the TIME ENTRY, it says I have missed the TIME ENTRY HEADER. Rebuilding the Payrool sysfiles didn't correct the problem.
How can I correct this to retrieve the reports that are under the edit/validation part of gross payroll? If this isn’t possible, how do I wipe out what is there so that I might reenter the same payroll. Remember that the employee history shouldn’t matter, since we do not actually print checks here. Thanks!

 

[MacolaHelp]

I'm afraid I don't have good news for you. Gross to Net is a very unoforgiving process. It updates the prempfil & doesn't go back nicely if you need to revert to the place you were before you did gross to net. Try looking at W2 information after you try to correct a gross to net using processes/adjust accumulators. Ugly. If it works now, halleleujah, but I spent 40 hrs of pro-bono time fixing a gross to net at one of my sites 4 or 5 years ago. Since then, I tell my clients to make a backup of all PR files BEFORE they gross to net on EACH payroll. Saves huge time in the end. Worst case scenario, they can go back to their prior gross to net, post checks & start over on the new pay period time entry.

You can't get back to edit/validate once you gross to net since prempfil.btr or prempfil_sql is updated. Sorry.