What’s in a date? PM Transactions

Recently, I worked with a group that needed to make changes to the dates of some of their posted payables transactions. Of course, you can’t do that through the user interface, so it was SQL to the rescue. While the initial job sounded easy, I was astonished to see just how many different date fields were in the tables. This post will review the various date fields in the following three tables:

Physical Name	Display Name	Date Fields
PM20000	PM Transaction OPEN File	10
PM30200	PM Paid Transaction History File	11
PM30300	PM Apply To History File	6

For each table, I’ll give the physical name for each relevant field and a short explanation of what I know about that date field. Some of the fields are obvious. Some, well, not so much.
I need a better explanation for the Purchase Date. Please add a comment to this post if you have more information on how this field is populated.

PM20000   PM Transaction Open File - 10 dates

VCHRNMBR	Voucher Number
VENDORID	Vendor ID
DOCTYPE	Document type of transaction. (Invoice, Return, Payment, etc.)
DOCDATE	Document date on the invoice or payment. This date is used by the subsidiary module (Payables Management)  to 'age' the document and to calculate it's due date.
DISCDATE	Date by which the invoice must be paid to earn the terms discount
DUEDATE	Date the invoice is due. After this date it is delinquent
POSTEDDT	System date when user pushed the [Post] button when the doc was originally posted.
MODIFDT	User date when transaction was last modified
DINVPDOF	The apply date from the final document applied to the invoice. This is the date the invoice or pmt became fully applied. Voided is fully applied, written-off can be fully applied. A document in the Open table should not have a value in this field, because no documents in the open table should be ‘paid off’.
PSTGDATE	Posting date for the invoice or payment; set by the user on batch window or doc date expansion window. This is the date of the transaction on the General Ledger - the date attached to the Journal Entry created by the transaction.
Tax_Date	Date that should be used to calculate and/or report sales tax, defaults to Document date; set by user on window
PRCHDATE	Physical date of transfer of goods/services
DEX_ROW_TS	Dex Row Timestamp – system date & time when last modified

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PM30200   PM Paid Transaction History File - 11 dates

VCHRNMBR	Voucher Number
VENDORID	Vendor ID
DOCTYPE	Document type of transaction. (Invoice, Return, Payment, etc.)
DOCDATE	Document date on the invoice or payment. This date is used by the subsidiary module (Payables Management) to 'age' the document and to calculate it's due date.
DISCDATE	Date by which the invoice must be paid to earn the terms discount
DUEDATE	Date the invoice is due. After this date it is delinquent
POSTEDDT	System date when user pushed the [Post] button when the doc was originally posted.
MODIFDT	user date when trx last modified an ‘apply’ is a modification, a void is not.
DINVPDOF	Apply date of the document that caused the invoice or pmt to be fully applied. Voided is fully applied, written-off can be fully applied. The DATE1 field for the final apply record in the PM30300 table becomes the DINVPDOF.
PSTGDATE	Posting date for the invoice or payment; set by the user on batch window or doc date expansion window. This is the date of the transaction on the General Ledger - the date attached to the Journal Entry created by the transaction.
VOIDPDATE	The Posting Date (GL date) for the Void -The sub ledger void date becomes the DINVPDOF
Tax_Date	Date that should be used to calculate and/or report sales tax, defaults to Document date; set by user on window
PRCHDATE	Physical date of transfer of goods/services
DEX_ROW_TS	Dex Row Timestamp – system date & time when last modified, includes voids.

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PM30300   PM Apply to History File - 6 dates

VENDORID	Vendor ID
VCHRNMBR	Voucher number of the payment document. The ‘apply from’ voucher number.
APFRDCNM	Document number of the payment ( check number). The ‘apply from’ Document number
DOCTYPE	Document type of the payment. The ‘apply from’ document type.
APTVCHNM	Voucher number of the invoice being paid. The ‘apply to’ voucher number.
APTODCNM	Document number of the invoice being paid. The ‘apply to’ invoice number
APTODCTY	The type of document the pmt is being applied to; invoice, debit memo, etc. The ‘apply to’ document type.
DOCDATE	Document date of the payment being applied; check date. The ‘apply from’ document date.
DATE1	The date the sub ledger uses for the ‘apply date’. This is set by the user on the apply window and used by the system in the HITB and to determine when the 1099 amount is reportable.
GLPOSTDT	Posting date to the general ledger, if an entry is necessary, like in a write-off. Set by user on the apply window
APTODCDT	Document date of the invoice being paid. The ‘apply to’ document date
ApplyToGLPostDate	Original GL posting date of the invoice being paid. The ‘apply to’ GL posting date.
ApplyFromGLPostDate	Original GL posting date of the payment document. The ‘apply from’ GL posting date.

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Leslie