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HeatherBryant2's avatar
HeatherBryant2
Qrew Assistant Captain
7 years ago

Maintain Numeric Settings w/ HTML

Hello, I'm trying to show a Numeric Formula field in red by way of a Rich Text Formula field.

This is what I'm using in the Rich Text Formula field:"<div style=\"color:#ff0000;font-size:9pt\">$"&[Sub-Total w/ Vacancy]&"</div>"

The [Sub-Total] field is a Formula - Numeric field, with the currency option chosen. 

The rich text field removes the dollar sign and decimal point from the numeric field. On one value it also added more decimal points than the numeric field allows for.

Any ideas how to maintain the numeric settings in the rich text field?
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  • AlexCertificati's avatar
    AlexCertificati
    Qrew Cadet
    7 years ago
    That's pretty interesting. What happens when you try wrapping the currency field with a ToText() ?
  • QuickBaseCoachD's avatar
    QuickBaseCoachD
    Qrew Captain
    7 years ago
    Try this one.  Just change the first line to use your currency field.


    var number Value = Round([My Currency field],0.01);
    var text Decimals = "." & Right(ToText(Int(Abs($value) * 100)),2);
    var text Thousands = If(Abs($Value)>=1000,ToText(Int(Abs($Value)/1000)));
    var text Hundreds=Right(ToText(Int(Abs($Value))),3);

    If($Value=0,"$0.00",
    If($Value<0, "<font color=red>- ")
    &
    "$" & List(",",$Thousands,$Hundreds) & $Decimals)
    • KeithJusas's avatar
      KeithJusas
      Qrew Captain
      7 years ago
      Mark, i've used this formula and it retains the decimals and it also extends to millions

      var number Value = Round([MY FIELD],0.01);
      var text Decimals = "." & Right(ToText(Int($value * 100)),2);
      var text Thousands = If(Abs($Value)>=1000,ToText(Int(Abs($Value)/1000)));
      var text Hundreds=Right(ToText(Int($Value)),3);
      var text Millions = If($Value>=1000000,ToText(Int($Value/1000000)));

      If($value>=1000000,"$" & ToFormattedText($value, "comma_dot") & $decimals,
      If($Value=0,"$0.00",
      If($Value<0, "- ")
      &
      "$" & List(",",$Millions,$Thousands,$Hundreds) & $Decimals))
    • AlexCertificati's avatar
      AlexCertificati
      Qrew Cadet
      7 years ago
      So, it's necessary to recapitulate the baked-in currency settings for a numeric field in code in a formula field that wants to use the settings selected for that field, do I have that right?

      Do you think this represents a bug in the ToText function, or at least an error in its documentation, which reads 'Returns a Text value containing the print representation of the argument', which appears based on this conversation not to be true?
    • QuickBaseCoachD's avatar
      QuickBaseCoachD
      Qrew Captain
      7 years ago
      I don�t know if they will accept it as a bug, but I seem to recall in my testing that it did not retain the decimals when the cents end in 00 or 0 like 123.10 comes out as 123.1. Is that what you have found.

      I am just on my iPhone now but I think the actual function is ToFormattedText but I don�t think I was able to get it to retain 2 decimals.