Currency Translation - Rolling Forecast

Question

Hi,
Scenario is: We're doing 13 months rolling forecast which goes beyond one year. When currency translation happens, as part of default logic, it converts the records only for the year of forecast (selected in current view) and not beyond the current view year.
For instance, if selected forecast period 2011.JAN, we expect user to input numbers from 2011.JAN through to 2012.JAN. System run the currency conversion package and translate records for periods 2011.JAN - 2011.DEC, and doesn't convert 2012.JAN because it is the next year (not selected in current view).
Following is the code I'm using in the FX Conversion package:
*RUN_PROGRAM CURR_CONVERSION
      CATEGORY     = %VERSION_SET% 
      CURRENCY = USD
      TID_RA = %TIME_SET%
      RATEENTITY = GLOBAL
      OTHER =  ENTITY=%CURRENCY_SET%
*ENDRUN_PROGRAM
Can you please suggest any resolution, i.e. how I can enhance the code to convert records whatever I get from runtime (template) and not just restricted to CV Year?
Many thanks,
Shabbar

Answer 1

Hi Shabbar,
While executing Currency translation, if you can select 13 months (say,from 2011.Jan to 2012.Jan ) in data manager parameter, Conversion executes for all 13 months as %TIME_SET% take value from your data manager prompt.
If you are identify %TIME_SET% based on Year in Category dimension, you can try below code.
*SELECT(%YEAR%, [YEAR], CATEGORY, "[ID]='FORECAST'")
*SELECT(%TIMEMBR%,[ID],TIME,"[YEAR]=%YEAR%")
*XDIM_MEMBERSET TIME=%TIMEMBR%,%YEAR+1%.JAN
//standard currency translation code.
If you are working on BPC NW 7.5, you can consider using TMVL(OFFSET,Time member) to define the scope.You can refer to http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bpc75_nw/helpdata/en/c8/d961d0dbfd4745af4b667279573702/content.htm for more details on TMVL.
Pls post here if you require further clarification.
Regards,
Kranthi