Related topics
- About running the primary currency conversion for customers
- Run the primary currency conversion for customers
In this routine you change the debtor’s primary currency.
Function keys
| Select conversion programs | Access the Select conversion programs window to make your selection. |
- Old primary currency
- Mandatory entry, even if you select specific debtors to run the conversion for. Enter the primary currency code of the currency you want to convert.
- Debtor number
- Optional entries. Enter the number of the debtor(s) for which you want to run the conversion. If you leave these selection fields blank, then the routine will convert all debtors with the same primary currency as the one you entered in the Old primary currency field.
- New primary currency
- Enter the new primary currency.
- Conversion rate
- Enter the conversion rate. The rate should be entered as:
- This means that the system uses the following method to calculate the new primary amount:
| 1 new primary currency unit = 1 old primary currency unit multiplied by the conversion rate |
| Old primary amount = New primary currency amount Conversion rate For example: 180,000 BEF = 4592.72 EURO |
- Select parallel file
- Set to YES to display the Select parallel files window where you can select the appropriate parallel files for the conversion. See the lists per application in About working with parallel files after system currency conversion for information about all available parallel files.
- Release
- Displays the current release.
- Conversion library
- Displays the name of the conversion library. The conversion library is created automatically by the system and holds all information that is unique for the company. The name of the library is, for example, A7SCTO2xx where xx is the company code.
Primary currency conversion, Selection, Start conversion (SCTD0202)
Click OK to submit the currency conversion program to batch. The system will inform you when each file has been converted successfully by sending the following message to your user message queue: “Conversion completed normally for; xxx, yyy” where xxx is the name of the program and yyy is the description.
When program(s) that rebuild balances has completed normally the following message will be sent: “Customer balance rebuild completed“.
When the conversion run has completed the following message will be sent: “Job CUST_CONV completed normally“.