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   <Header>
      <Title>Currency initialization overview</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e1813047">
         <Level1>Currency initialization</Level1>
         <Level2>initialization</Level2>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e1813052">
         <Level1>Initialization</Level1>
         <Level2>currency initialization</Level2>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>To carry out currency initialization, you must take the
		following steps. Details of each step are described later in this chapter.</Paragraph>
      <ProcedureList>
         <ListItem>If you are moving to a standard currency system, verify that
		  you have completed the necessary preparatory setup, as described in the section
		  "Additional preparation for a standard multicurrency system setup".</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Verify that you have carried out the necessary prerequisite
		  actions, as described in the section "Prerequisites for currency
		  initialization."</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Define the conversion cluster in these sessions: <List>
               <ListItem> 
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7501m000" role="session">CI Clusters (tccri7501m000)</GUIRef>/ <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7101s000" role="session">CI Clusters (tccri7101s000)</GUIRef> Define the initialization
				type, the new currency system, and the new reference currency.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7502m000" role="session">CI-Cluster Companies (tccri7502m000)</GUIRef>/ <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7102s000" role="session">CI-Cluster Companies (tccri7102s000)</GUIRef> For each conversion-cluster company, define the new
				home currencies.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>CI Cluster Transaction Currencies <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7104m000" role="session">CI Cluster Transaction Currencies (tccri7104m000)</GUIRef> Only for an external currency
				initialization, select the EMU transaction currencies that must be converted to
				euros.</ListItem>
            </List>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItem>Define the currency exchange-rates between the currencies that
		  are currently in use and the new home currencies, in the CI Rates <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7100m000" role="session">CI Rates (tccri7100m000)</GUIRef> session.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Run the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7221m000" role="session">Initialize CI Tables and CI Fields Tables (tccri7221m000)</GUIRef> session to fill the CI
		  tables and CI fields tables.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Specify customized tables and table fields that must be
		  converted. Specify the customized tables and fields, the conversion rules to be
		  applied, and the priority with which the table or field must be converted, in
		  these sessions: <List>
               <ListItem>
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7522m000" role="session">CI Tables (tccri7522m000)</GUIRef>
               </ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7123s000" role="session">CI-Conversion Table Parameters (tccri7123s000)</GUIRef> 
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7521m000" role="session">CI Fields (tccri7521m000)</GUIRef>
               </ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7122s000" role="session">CI-Conversion Field Parameters (tccri7122s000)</GUIRef>
               </ListItem>
            </List>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItem>Process the conversion cluster. Before you start the actual
		  initialization process, you must perform one or more trial initializations to
		  generate error logs. When all the errors are corrected, you can run the actual
		  initialization process to change the data in the database. Use these sessions: <List>
               <ListItem>
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7203m000" role="session">CI Process (tccri7203m000)</GUIRef>
               </ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7520m000" role="session">CI Error Log (tccri7520m000)</GUIRef>
               </ListItem>
            </List>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItem>View or print the audit data. You can delete the audit data
		  after printing the data. Use these sessions: <List>
               <ListItem> 
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7401m000" role="session">Print Audit Files (tccri7401m000)</GUIRef>
               </ListItem>
               <ListItem>CI <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7503m000" role="session">Process Data (tccri7503m000)</GUIRef>
               </ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7504m000" role="session">CI Process-Data Internal (tccri7504m000)</GUIRef>
               </ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7505s000" role="session">CI Process-Data Internal (tccri7505s000)</GUIRef>
               </ListItem>
            </List>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItem>Run SPT sessions (FP5 and later). To update the tfacp500 and
		  tfacr500 tables, run these sessions: <List>
               <ListItem> 
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/spt/tfspt0949m000" role="session">Service Pack Upgrade for tfacp500 (Open Items A/P) (tfspt0949m000)</GUIRef>
               </ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/spt/tfspt0950m000" role="session">Service Pack Upgrade for tfacr500 (Open Items A/R) (tfspt0950m000)</GUIRef>
               </ListItem>
            </List>
         </ListItem>
      </ProcedureList>
      <Note>
         <SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
         <List>
            <ListIntro>To speed up the conversion process, after you have run the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/cri/tccri7203m000" role="session">CI Process (tccri7203m000)</GUIRef> session once, use the Table Boosters <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/mcs/tcmcs0598m000" role="session">Table Boosters (tcmcs0598m000)</GUIRef> session to activate both of these
			 boosters:</ListIntro>
            <ListItem>tcmcs002</ListItem>
            <ListItem>tcmcs008</ListItem>
         </List>
      </Note>
   </GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>