Use the Currency Utility to create, browse, edit and delete Currency Definitions. Currency Definitions provide currency conversion parameters specified in a Column Map, including conversion rates and conversion method (direct conversion or triangulation via the euro dollar).
The Currency Editor displays a Currency Definition in a three-tabbed dialog to allow you to specify general conversion information parameters, conversion rates and currency types. You can create date‑specific rate tables to allow transaction dates to be specified as part of the currency conversion parameters (the current date is used by default). You can also define Types Tables within a Currency Definition to match currency types defined in a database with currency types defined in the rate tables. Each time a currency transaction is performed, the source and destination currency types must be specified explicitly or defined in a specified Types Table.
The fully qualified name of a Currency Definition consists of a 1 to 12 character string. When you create Currency Definitions, it is helpful to use a logical set of naming conventions to identify the use for each and to organize Currency Definitions for easy access.
This section explains how to create and maintain Currency Definitions, including how to:
For details on specifying currency conversion parameters in a Column Map, see Column Maps.