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T24 Application Development

Other Considerations

EURO Conversion Issues

New applications with accounts, local currency amount fields or exchange rate fields need to be

defined in the EURO module. Refer to the Euro manual for details.

Multi Company Processing

The infrastructure incorporates the concept of multi-company processing whereby branches (or any 'legal

vehicle') operating on the system can share certain data files (customer files, tables etc.) whilst still

controlling their own financial files. The rules to determine which files can be shared are defined by the

application programmer when creating the application, the user can determine the company infrastructure

i.e. who shares what.

All files accessed by the system are opened by a standard procedure which, using the rules and existing

company infrastructure, determines which disk file should be opened. Hence multiple companies can be

set up without modifications to the application code.

In an extended multi company environment branches or (any “legal vehicle”) will be linked to a Lead

company (the direct equivalent of a multi company) and will share all data files with the Lead company,

with the exception of certain data files used for producing financial reports (file classification FRP). It is

important when accessing parameter files that the core routine EB.READ.PARAMETER is used to ensure

that the correct record is read. For example reading parameter files with a key of ID.COMPANY should

not be used as in extended multi company the record will not be present for a branch. Also it is bad

practice to attempt to open a file by setting up the mnemonic within the code, except in very special

circumstances and in this case the mnemonic should be that of a lead company. NB: on a company

record the fields FINANCIAL.COM and FINANCIAL.MNE will indicate the lead company of a branch, and

thus the company that owns the financial level (FIN) files.

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