[Vtigercrm-developers] decimal field format

[Rubén A. Estrada Orozco]

anyone?

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM Rubén A. Estrada Orozco <rulotec1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I see this change was introduced about 9 months ago:
> https://code.vtiger.com/vtiger/vtigercrm/-/merge_requests/1185/diffs
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> This change has important/serious implications for the behavior of Vtiger.
>
> It formats all decimal fields according to the "Number of Currency
> Decimals" parameter in the user's preferences. Such preferences can vary
> from user to user.
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> If you create a field such as this one:
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> You expect it to have 4 decimals. You also expect that the *currency* number
> format would not impact such other fields. But guess what? it does!!!
>
> There is a big problem with this. If a user with 4 decimals format sets a
> field value of a record to say 0.1234, and then a user with 2 decimals
> format edits the same record without touching said field, then its value
> will change to 0.12. Not the expected behavior, right?
>
> Moreover, if you come from a Vtiger version prior to 8.2 and upgrade, then
> this will potentially mess up your data little by little, removing decimals
> from such fields. Because, the default number of decimals for currency
> fields is 2, so most probably, you'll be losing decimals.
>
> This was not carefully thought through. Vtiger team, please consider
> reverting that change.
>
>
>
> Saludos
>
> Rubén
>
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