Currency Settings (Project Server 2010 settings)
Applies to: Project Server 2010
Topic Last Modified: 2011-03-30
Currency Settings is a part of the Additional Server Settings in the Operational Policies section of Microsoft Project Server 2010 Server Settings. For more information about related settings that you can configure, see Additional Server Settings (Project Server 2010 settings). For more information about Operational Policies settings, see Operational Policies (Project Server 2010 settings).
Currency Settings
Through the currency setting, you can select the default currency setting for projects that are published to the server. (This is used for reports and the default view for new projects.) The default value is based on the default currency of the language that is used for the Project Web App instance.
You can also select the currency settings for publishing:
Allow projects to be published in various currencies Select this option if your organization uses multiple currencies for costs within projects. (This is the default setting).
Enforce that projects are published in the server currency Select this option if your organization only uses a single currency for costs within projects. The currency that is used is the one selected as the default server currency.
To configure the Currency Settings
On the Server Settings page, in the Operational Policies section, click Additional Server Settings.
On the Additional Server Settings page, in the Currency Settings section, select one of the following currency options:
Allow projects to be published in various currencies (default).
Enforce that projects are published in the server currency
If you select Enforce that projects are published in the server currency, you see a message. This message box warns you that the change is only be enforced on all successive projects that are published to the server. All projects that are not using the default server currency must be changed to the default currency and republished.
Click OK.
All projects published to the server that are using a currency that conflicts with the server currency will be displayed in the Currency Settings section of the page in the Project in conflict with the server currency list. You can use this as a reference to note which projects have to have their currency changed to the server currency.
Click Save.
Change currency option for a project
Use the following procedure in Project Professional 2010 to change the currency settings for a project. You can use this procedure to do the following:
Select the currency for a specific project if the currency setting lets you use multiple currencies.
Change the currency setting on a project to the server currency if the currency setting only lets you use the server currency.
To change the currency for a project in Project Professional 2010
Open Project Professional 2010 and log on to Project Server 2010.
Check out and open a project from Project Server 2010.
Click File, and then click Options.
On the Project Options page, click Display.
On the Display page, in the Currency options for this project section, select the currency that you want to use for this project.
Click OK.
Click File, and then click Save to save the project.
Click File, and then click Publish to publish the project.