Start conditions and currency handling (version 46C)

[Mike Pokraka]

Hi Kjetil,
Isn't that why we see attributes like 'AmountInLocalCurrency'?
Thru your attrib would convert it into a predefined standard which shall 
be followed.
An alternative is to code your comparison value into a virtual attribute 
which reads it from customizing or wherever and converts it to the 
currency specified by your currency attribute. Thus your condition would be
If OBJ.ClearedAmount < OBJ.Tolerance

Cheers
Mike

Kjetil Kilhavn wrote:
> I am working on a (thank you Sarbannes-Oxley for keeping me employed) 
> solution to notify about cleared inventory differences.
>  
> When an inventory difference is cleared, the cleared amount is not 
> available in the inventory record (object type BUS3021). Thus I have 
> created two virtual attributes for the amount and the currency which I 
> find from the material documents created when the difference is cleared.
>  
> As it is now, the requirement is that the workflow should start if the 
> amount is non-zero. If the requirement changes I suppose absolute values 
> can be handled using OR between e.g. > 20 and < -20. However, how can I 
> specify the currency field for the amount attribute?
>  
> I haven't found any place in the condition editor to indicate that the 
> condition I am setting up is an amount condition, so how will the 
> condition editor know that my currency attribute belongs to my value 
> attribute in order to determine if the amount has to be translated to 
> the condition currency?
>  
> As far as I know there are no structures containing amount + currency, 
> the closest I have found is T001R_BF (in our system 5433 structures 
> contains currency key - I must admit I have not checked them all). 
> However, even if I use a structure with amount and currency, how will 
> the condition evaluation function know which translation date and 
> exchange rate type to use?
>  
> When the argument about currency handling was served in an earlier 
> thread I accepted that happily, but now I have begun wondering what it 
> really means that there is currency handling. SAP's delivered examples 
> seem to indicate that the amount has to be converted before it is served 
> to the condition editor, but I don't think they would call that currency 
> handling unless the marketing people have taken over the whole show.
> -- 
> Kjetil Kilhavn, Statoil KTJ IT BKS
>  
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