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Hi I have an issue with an expense application I have built. Not with the function of the app but with how the app is presented on European  mobile phones.

 

Here is the specific issue. I have a plan input field, formatted to take in numbers in my case the amount of the expense purchase itself.

 

No currency is applied at input as that is handled behind the scenes in my SharePoint List. So the input is simply a raw floating point number ##.##

 

Required is both a dollar amount and a cents amount, even if the cents are zero.

 

The issue I have is when this field is displayed on specific European phones and the user clicks on the input field. The popup keyboard data can be entered from, does not contain the point/dot character, this is because currency in Europe uses the comma character for currency separation between dollars and cents. And when the user currently attempts to put a comma in this input, PowerApps rejects the entry as a non number.

 

So my question is can I force the input field to accept either the dot character or the comma character as valid input.  Then regardless of which the user enters, always place the dot character in the data, so that all behind the scenes calculations work as normal?

 

I really do not want to create a extra text box for this one input and have to move data to a number formatted field on the form, if I can simply handle this issue in a formatting command from the input itself.

 

All guidance and suggestions welcome.

 

Kind regards

 

Duncan

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  • timl Profile Picture
    37,283 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Hi @DuncanLondon 

    With a text input control that's set to receive a numeric value, there's no way in the designer to configure the control to accept either a dot or a comma character.

    Without redesigning your app to use a different control to accept your number...

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/Need-a-numerical-key-pad-with-decimal-point/td-p/290149

     

    ..the only other alternative would be to replace the keyboard with one where the numeric keypad includes both , and dot symbols.

    https://www.androidcentral.com/how-set-default-keyboard-your-android-phone

     

  • DuncanLondon Profile Picture
    2 on at

    Hi @timl , yes that is what I suspected. The phone is a iPhone 11. and this is a well documented bug with apple devices in Europe.

     

    The on Phone solution is as you've described. using a third-party keyboard app with a dot in the keys option. That for the User is a hassle and introduces another application to our delivery, we are hoping to avoid.

     

    I was hoping I could help my user out with some smart in field formatting at our end. If not we will manage this one user's data in post submission. 

     

    Boooo Apple OS

  • timl Profile Picture
    37,283 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Thanks for clarifying that @DuncanLondon - sorry that there isn't a great way to solve this problem

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