[Vtigercrm-developers] decimal field format

[Vincenzo Bruno]

I agree that it should be reverted.

Moreover i think that Currency field should have its own per-field 
"Decimals" setting like Text field, maybe optional to bypass the global 
setting.

V.


Il 14/02/25 17:29, Rubén A. Estrada Orozco ha scritto:
> 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.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.png
>
>     If you create a field such as this one:
>
>     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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