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CLG
New Contributor
9 months ago

Copying or Calculating a translated currency value

Hello --  I'm trying to isolate a data point sitting at an Account parent with USD as the currency, then copy that value to a different account.  Then, I want to use the second account to seed anot...
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JackLacava
Honored Contributor
9 months ago

You cannot save data for a Currency that is not the Entity currency using Calculate.

If you want to explicitly trigger translation, you can use api.Data.Translate(), or run Data Management jobs to perform the translation, but to be honest, in this case there is no need for BPA_InvestSubs_USD at all; just let the system translate and pull from S#Scenario1:A#InvestmentSubsidiaries:C#USD when you need it in "Scenario2".