[Rob Klaproth]

We have a client that split their GP into two installations, one for the surviving companies which was basically left as-is and one for the companies that got sold.  I moved the “sold” companies over to a new instance of SQL and GP and restored DYNAMICS and those company DB’s that were sold, and ran clearcompanies to clear out all the other companies.   

The new companies do not use multi-currency, the old ones did.  So we have a ton of multi-currency setup that is hanging out in the system, but for the new companies they are on USD functional and reporting, so they do not need the MC setup information, of which there is a TON.

Can I remove the currencies not in use and just keep the USD one?  I know GP is pretty picky about this, but the only transactions that remain in this clients system are all in USD, the other companies with multi currency are not in the current environment, they are in the old environment.

Maybe I am just OCD, but since the client is not using multi currency (but will be using MR), it seems to be like it would be good idea to get all that stuff out of their system to keep it clean, and in the future if they want to implement their own multi-currency they may not want all that legacy data in there.

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Rob Klaproth
Sr. Dynamics GP Consultant
Armanino
San Diego CA
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[Bill Marshall]

You can probably remove all the old, expired exchange rate records and rate types in the various companies, but yes, GP can be sensative about MC changes.  I would disable currency access first, see how it goes for a few months and then delete them if all checks out. Check the MC… transaction tables to insure there’s no MC data. Of course different modules also store it in different tables. Also check the MC Revaluation tables.  Not sure if there’s an easy way to remove them from the MC Account Master.

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Bill Marshall
President
mc²
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[Rob Klaproth]

Thanks for the suggestions Bill.  Access is already disabled in the surviving companies, they never had access to begin with (not even to the USD currency ironically enough) – they weren’t being used for Web Services or MR at the time so I guess the currencies were never assigned.  

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You can probably remove all the old, expired exchange rate records and rate types in the various companies, but yes, GP can be sensative about MC changes.  I would disable currency access first, see how it goes for a few months and then delete them if all checks out. Check the MC… transaction tables to insure there’s no MC data. Of course different modules also store it in different tables. Also check the MC Revaluation tables.  Not sure if there’s an easy way to remove them from the MC Account Master.

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Bill Marshall
President
mc²
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[Don Pugh]

If the companies were never assigned to a different currency and they never used any foreigh currency, then you should be ok.  Just disabling access to the currencies for the companies would be the best solution.

Multi currency is very engangled in all the tables for all the modules.  I would be concerned about trying to clear/delete any of the tables, because they are so imbeded everywhere.

Multi Currency is easy to turn on, but a pain to turn off.

Don

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Don Pugh
GP Consultant
Sandon Associates
Woodside CA
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