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Text field currency formatting whilst linking to SharePoint List.

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I'm building an app that links to a SharePoint list. When the app was built from the list I lost the formatting on a lot of my fields (percentage fields and currency fields). I unlocked the data cards and editted the text to keep inherting from parent but also include formatting using:

 

"£" & Text(Parent.Default, "0.00")

 

For every field this worked, but I have one field where it got the currency format but has way too many decimal places. In the SharePoint list it is validated to only have 2 decimal places and I specified in the text field to only hold 2 decimal places. Does anyone know what might be causing this? The only difference I can see between this field and the other fields is that this is a minus value (it has to be minus as it is net financial impact).

 

Screenshot below for reference to field and text code.

 

Thanks in advance

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    mdevaney Profile Picture
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    @Anonymous 

    My thought is the field in Sharepoint is storing the value as Text already.  Give this code a try, it will convert the field to a number and then re-convert to Text in the correct format.

     

    "£" & Text(Value(Parent.Default), "0.00")

     

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    Microsoft Employee on at

    Solved! Thanks very much

  • mdevaney Profile Picture
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    @Anonymous 

    No problem.  Always happy to get someone unstuck so they can continue building!

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