What Atlas will not do
What the screen says
What to do
A capital object with no sanctioned amount
Reported as nobody having said, never as a budget of zero: “That is not an unlimited budget — it is a figure nobody has entered, so Atlas cannot say whether the spend is within it.”
Record the sanction when it is approved. Until then the spend is allowed and the absence is on the screen — you are not blocked on day one.
Three requisitions that each fit
They will not all fit. The ceiling is cumulative, and the refusal shows its working: what is sanctioned, what is already committed, what this would take it to, and how much is left.
Raise a supplementary sanction, or charge it elsewhere. A ceiling checked one purchase at a time is a hurdle, not a ceiling.
Spend in a currency the sanction is not in
Refused, not converted. “A sanctioned amount is an amount in a currency, and what was approved was not a rate.”
Charge it to an object in that currency, or record the sanction in the currency the spend is actually in.
A rate with no unit of measure
The unit is part of the price, and a schedule line that names none is left behind at adoption — with a count, never silently.
State the unit on the rate. Those lines have no agreed rate on the contract until you do, which is the honest position rather than a gap to fill in.
A quantity measured in the wrong unit
Refused, never converted. “Atlas does not convert between units of measure, so it will not value one against the other.”
Record the quantity in the rate's unit, or agree a rate in the unit the work is measured in.
Certifying your own measurement
Refused. “Certification is somebody else confirming a claim — the same authority a goods receipt carries for an order — and it means nothing if it is the claimant's own.”
Somebody else certifies it. A rejected measurement is not certified either: record a new one, because the rejection is part of the history of what was claimed.
A rate of zero carried across from a bid
Refused. “A rate of nothing is how an unpriced line is recorded, not a price of zero.”
Agree a rate before any quantity is valued against the line. Carrying a nil across would publish on a contract that the work is free.
A total across two currencies
No total is shown at all. “A figure summed across two currencies is not a smaller answer, it is a wrong one.”
Correct the rates. Every rate adopted onto a contract carries the contract's own currency, so this can only come from a hand-entered row.
Every one of these is also written into the guidance drawer on the screen it happens on, and into the process guides your own workspace generates — so a person who meets it at four o’clock on a Friday does not need us, or you.
