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Monetary Units

This screen allows you to record and change currencies. Open screen in browser Open Form

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Monetary Units

The meaning of the entry fields is:

Code	The ISO 4217 currency code. This is the international standard that defines three-letter codes for currencies.
Description	The description of the code.
Presentation Symbol	Defines the character which is used as a currency symbol. Some currencies do not have their own character. In that case, often the symbol ‘¤‘ is used.
Presentation mask	A pattern that describes how the amount must be displayed after division by the ‘divider’. The presentation mask consists of a number of characters, of which each character describes exactly one character in the presentation. The following characters are possible in the presentation mask: •G: the grouping character (in Europe this is a point ‘.’). •D: the decimal character (in Europe this is a comma ‘,’). •9: the number at this position before or after the comma, in case before the number at least one other number is placed other than 0. •0: the number at this position before or after the comma. A presentation mask ‘990D00’ gives the following results: ‘12.3’ will become ‘12.30’ ‘0’ will become ‘0.00’