Periodic conversion & consolidation

Hi,
I have to setup a periodic conversion & consolidation.
Can anyone help me with the following issues:
1) in the business rules, currency conversion rules, has someone a file for which combinations I have to set Y to "apply to periodic"?
2) As data is entered on quarterly basis, where and how in the time dimension do I have to change this? (I thought I change the monthnum of the time dimension --> Now march is 3, but I change it in 1)??
Hopefully someone understands what my problems are.
Thanks,
Benjamin

Hi all,
I experienced this problem in 7.5NW SPO04.
I've put some notes in the following thread :
Re: Currency Conversion in BPC NW 7.5, SP3
Hopefully it will help.
Thanks.
Brad.

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Transportation of various BW components.
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Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.
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2.Resolving Data load error such as Invalid characters, Time period conversion, Currency conversion, Duplicate records, etc
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Ticket Resolution:
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Preparing design documents from the Business Requirement docs and identified the relevant data targets for satisfying the customer requirements.
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BW Doc checklist preparation
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Applying Support packs and performing ORT.
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1.Carried out data load on a daily, weekly and monthly basis using Process chains from both SAP Source systems as well as Non-SAP Source systems such as Informatica.
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u2022BW Doc checklist preparation
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u2022Data load analysis taking into account the CPU utilization.
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Refer.
Roles & Responsibilities for Junior & Senior consultants(Technical)
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