Hold Document and Parking Document in SAP

What is Hold Document and Parking Document in SAP?

Hold Document is one of the required and regular functionality while processing the day to day operations. It will help to temporarily suspend the work without losing the data which already entered. The requisite condition is assigning the temporary number to hold the document.

How to hold document: Post the transaction as usually in F-02 general posting,

Hold Document and Parking Document in SAP

Go to Menu item Document>simulate>Hold or Document>hold How to post the hold document: Go to F-02 general posting, Give header data, click on held document button or go to menu item document>get held document.

System asks for the temporary number and give the number and press<enter> and post the transaction.

Park Document is one of the other functionality used in daily transactions. It will not also update the general ledger balances till final posting is completed. It can be used when there are no proper authorizations to the user and has to send the document to other user for confirmation of the document.

1. Park document can also be deleted, modifiable, and can be rejected by the user.

2 . The main differences between the hold document and park document are park document is parked with the regular document number where as the hold document held with temporary number.

3. The main feature of the Park Document is, we can change the header data details including the posting date and document type. This is the only area we can change the posting date, and document type in SAP environment.

How to park document: go to normal posting i.e. f-02 and give the header data and line item data as usual. Go to menu item document click on <park>. Document will be parked with original number. Or we can park the general ledger document in separate posting screen. Transaction code: F 65.

Usual posting screen but exclusively for parking of document.


Posting of Parked document: Accounting>fin. Accounting>general ledger>document entry>parked document> FBV0 post/delete park document. Give the company code: 2006.

To give the parked document number,

Give the fiscal year: 2006

Press enter and to post save the document. Document will be posted.

We can change the details of parked document, reject, modify, and delete the parked document.

Note! We can change the posting date of the parked document and other header Details also. This is the only area we can change the header data details.

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