Assign Validation Methods
Application component: Validation Engine Framework
App type: SAP GUI
Scope items: Group Reporting - Financial Consolidation
Description:  With this app you can assign the defined validation methods to consolidation groups or units depending on which task type you selected, reported data validation, standardized data validation, or consolidated data validation. You can run validation tasks for your consolidation groups and units only after the method assignment. 
Key features: This app provides the following key features: Choose Task Type You can choose one of the following available task types:  01: Reported Data Validation  02: Standardized Data Validation 03: Consolidated Data Validation The method assignments for these task types are used for running validation tasks for reported data, standardized data, and consolidated data respectively from the Data Monitor and Consolidation Monitor, or from the Manage Data Validation Tasks app.  Assign Method For the 01 and 02 task types, you can assign a validation method to each consolidation unit, while for the 03 task type, you can assign a validation method to each consolidation group. Use the following procedure to assign methods to consolidation units or groups: Select a consolidation version in the Version field. The method assignment is version-dependent, that is, you can assign different methods to a same consolidation unit or group for different versions, for example, one for actual data and one for budget data. Among all special versions of a consolidation version, validation method assignment applies to Data Entry Version, meaning all consolidation versions with the same special version of Data Entry share the same method assignment. For more information, see Consolidation Versions. Select a period category. The method assignment applies to all of its contained periods.Note The period category 16 Periods is pre-delivered, which contains all 16 periods in a fiscal year. If necessary, you can define additional period categories in Customizing for SAP S/4HANA for Group Reporting under Data Collection for Consolidation  Define Period Categories. In each row of the assignment table, do the following: In the Consolidation Units or Consolidation Groups column, select individual consolidation units or groups or specify a range of them. In the Validation Method column, select a validation method you maintained using Define Validation Methods. If you want to specify a validity period for a method-to-consolidation unit/group assignment, choose the consolidation unit or group name. Then, in the dialog box, enter the fiscal year and period in the Valid From Period field, following the date format in your system regional settings, for example, 002.2018 or 2018/002.  Save your changes.  The process described above is depicted in the following graphic:  Note The validity period setting works in this way:  Leave Valid From empty if you want to make the method assignment valid indefinitely. This is the case for the consolidation unit C1000 in the screenshot example above.  If you enter a valid-from period, the assignment is only valid from that period. If for a same consolidation unit (or group), a second method assignment exists with a later valid-from period, the first method assignment is valid until the period before the second valid-from period. Taking the consolidation units from 1010 to 1409 in the screenshot above as an example, they are assigned with the validation method VM1 from 008.2018 to 001.2019 and assigned with the validation method VM2 from the period 002.2019 onward. However, if you run validation tasks for these units for any period before 008.2018, you will run into the error No validation method is assigned. If a consolidation unit has two method assignments and the first one has no valid-from period, the first assignment is valid until the period before the valid-from period of the second method assignment. This is the case for the consolidation unit S3000 in the screenshot above, it has the validation method SRD1 until 005.2018 and VM3 from 006.2018 onward.   View Assignment List By choosing the Assignment List button, you can display the list of assigned methods for each consolidation group or unit for the current task type. To view the method assignments for a different consolidation version, you need to go back to the Assignment tab to switch version. And here's a graphic that highlights the main aspects:   You can also export the list to a spreadsheet. The file can be first exported to the browser's file system, which starts with Z:\, and then saved to your native file system.   Note When maintaining master data for consolidation groups or units using the Consolidation Groups - Create and Change or Consolidation Units - Create and Change app, you can also view their assigned validation method under Methods  Validation. From there, you can also navigate to this app by choosing the Assign Validation Methods button.  
Business roles: Administrator - Group Reporting| External Auditor - Group Reporting| General Ledger Accountant - Group Reporting| Group Accountant
Consolidation Specialist : 
Is responsible for the Consolidation setting, processing for the FI or other business data from subsidiaries. Generates the legal & management consolidated reports.

Administrator - Group Reporting : 
Performs business oriented parts of configuration, such as  master data maintenance, universal hierarchy maintenance, reporting items table, exchange rate, rule definition.

External Auditor - Group Reporting : 
Ensures adherence of group data to legal accounting standard and process governance standards.

General Ledger Accountant - Group Reporting : 
Ensures adherence of local data to group quality standards.

Group Accountant : 
Executes and monitors group processing tasks, such as data adjustment, and inter-company elimination.