Creating Currencies

Select from a predefined list or create your own. You can specify:

  To create currencies:

  1. Select Administration, then Manage, then Dimensions.

  2. Select Currency.

  3. Click Add.

  4. Perform one action:

    • To add a predefined currency, select Select Standard Currencies.

    • To create a currency, select Create New Currency and specify properties:

      • For Code, enter an abbreviation or identifier of up to three characters.

      • Optional: For Description, enter a name, such as Japanese yen.

      • For Symbol, enter a symbol or select a symbol from the list.

      • Optional: For Scale, select how to enter and display the currency. For example, 3 yen represents 3000 yen if scaling is set to thousands.

      • Optional: For Triangulation Currency, select the currency to use as the common third currency for conversion.

      • Optional: For Alias Table, select the alias table to use.

      • Optional: For Alias, enter a name for the currency alias.

      • Optional: For Thousands Separator, select how to display the thousands separator (it must differ from the decimal separator).

      • Optional: For Decimal Separator, select how to display numbers with decimal values (it must differ from the thousands separator).

      • Optional: For Negative Sign, select how to display negative numbers:

        • Prefixed minus: -1000.

        • Suffixed minus: 1000-

        • Parentheses: (1000)

      • Optional: For Negative Color, select the display color.

      • Optional: Select Reporting Currency to set the currency as a reporting currency.

  5. Click Save.