Country Specific User-Defined Validation Not Triggered When Creating Payments

Last updated on MARCH 08, 2017

Applies to:

Symptoms

The user-defined validation "Document payee bank account IBAN required" for country Germany of the payment format is not triggered when creating a payment that uses a bank account that belongs to a bank whose country is Germany and a bank branch whose country is Germany.

This happens in the payments workbench and with payment process requests.
Reproduction steps:

1. Create a bank whose country is Germany. Lets say B1
2. Create a bank branch for bank B1 whose country is Germany. Lets say BB1
3. Create a bank account for bank B1 and bank branch BB1
4. Create a payment format with a user-defined validation: "Document payee bank account IBAN required" for country Germany
5. Create a supplier site bank account whose banking details have not populated IBAN
6. Create a payment that uses the payment format of step4 and the bank account of step 3 to pay to the supplier site and bank account of step5. The user-defined validation is not triggered

Cause