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Floating point - comma?

msvoren — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:54:00 GMT

Hi!Is there a way to tell alfresco to use comma instead of dot, for float data type? We are using our alfresco implementations for accounting, and comma is standard in our country.Any ideas?

Re: Floating point - comma?

derek — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:03:00 GMT

Hi,
I curious about this. How we store numbers is irrelevant as long as they represent the real number. I presume you want numerical property fields in the UI displayed with a comma.
Regards

Re: Floating point - comma?

msvoren — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:34:47 GMT

Yes Derek, that is correct.
Any ideas how to do this?

Re: Floating point - comma?

gavinc — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:10:08 GMT

What area of the UI are you seeing the problem, is it in a Web Form (in a web project) or in the Property Sheet?

If its in a web form you may need to look at either tweaking xforms.js or implementing a custom widget, to do this have a look at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Creating_XForms_Widgets

If it's in a Property Sheet JSF should be doing the conversion and displaying the correct format, if not you may need to provide a Converter for the property, see this wiki page for details: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Displaying_Custom_Metadata#Converters

Re: Floating point - comma?

mabayona — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:29:29 GMT

I had this problem in the Property Sheet and since JSF should be doing it (i.e. locale setting), I looked and fiddled long time how to configure it and had to give up.

At the end I´ve used a behaviour to display the comma. However, this only solved the output part of it. Input still needs to be done using point. (my users are not happy with it)

Re: Floating point - comma?

msvoren — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:09:58 GMT

Yes, that's my case too.. Input is even bigger problem than output.. I would like to enable my customers to input float number with comma.

I wonder why alfresco team didn't think of that.. Large amount of documents are of financial matter.. There should be a way to localize these settings.

Re: Floating point - comma?

derek — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:41:57 GMT

… (my users are not happy with it)

You've raised a bug and/or contacted support for it, then.

Re: Floating point - comma?

mabayona — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:03:38 GMT

You are right…. Sorry for the delay.

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-2610