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Online Journal Edit and Budget Checking in 9.2

If you are upgrading to 9.2 you should be aware of a change to how Journal Edit and Budget Checking is run when kicked off online. Previously when you brought up a Journal online and initiated a Journal Edit, an App Engine would be kicked off on the Process Scheduler. Starting in 9.2, this Application Engine is now running on the App Server. With this approach there is the potential for the AE to timeout depending on your app server settings - often this is set to 5 minutes. If this timeout occurs, then you will be logged out of your session and the Journal will be left stuck somewhere in the middle of the process. At that point you would need to come up with some SQL to reset flags and other data in order to process again. In general, this process should finish rather quickly so you shouldn't have to worry. But there are two scenarios in which you may find yourself butting up against the timeout limit: Processing a Journal with a vary large number of lines, especially lines