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Seting up AccountingBook comprises of two parts
Data import can be done either using Data Loader or Import Wizard. For most situations, Import Wizard works in case you don't have heirarchies in GL Account or Item list.
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Only when you want to import data with Hierarchy. |
After adding your GL Accounts (Chart of Accounts), you might want to add hierarchy or the parent-child relationship to the accounts. For that you will need to export the GL Accounts data to the CSV file and identify the SalesForce ID. The second step is to identify the SalesForce IDs of the Parent accounts to map those to the Child accounts. Insert Parent Account IDs next to the Child Account Names in the CSV file by V-lookup operation. Once you have the IDs of the Parent Accounts in CSV, you can perform the update operations on GL Accounts and map those respective parent accounts using Data Loader.
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Once the GL Accounts are loaded into the AccountingBook, the default accounts needs to be defined to get the correctness in the entries. To do so follow the below steps
Click on Admin/Get Started object
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If the Account Name/s are not reflected in the dropdown list, the reason might be that the spelling of the Account is incorrect. While importing the GL Accounts through the Data Loader if the defaults accounts are spelled correctly then those accounts are to be automatically reflected in the dropdown menu, else you need to manually rename the Account names. |
Remote Site Security settingSetting
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Remote Site Settings allows permissions to Salesforce Apex (code) to call to other Web Services or Web Applications. In this case we are allowing AccountingBook to call Salesforce internally using Web Services to enable some of the dynamic functionalities to work. |
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In the new page save the remote site settings by clicking Save button
Add that in Remote Security setting with name – "Instance"
Copy the first part of the URL address to the Remote Site URL. Refer the underlined URL in the picture
Click on Save button, it looks as below once saved
Once the Remote site is added in the settings, the page needs to be retrieved to do this follow the below steps
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Retreive page layout updates page layouts for edit screens for Receivables and Payables objects to organize all the controls(Field) in one layout. Which enables to either add or remove the feilds from the page layout.
Enable Left side AccountingBook Links
Goto Setup menu
Click on Customize
Click on Home
Click on Home Page Layouts, a new page gets open
Click on the Edit link to open a new page
Tick the check box and close the page, this will create a short cut in the AccountingBook home page the links will take you to the statement of accounts. Refer picture below, each one is the link which will open up as described
Congratulations, You have completed AccountingBook Setup !!!
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