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jbrandes99
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   Topic: Zeros to fill
Posted: 28 Jun 2011 at 9:52am |
Me again...in need of assistance please. I need to figure out a way to create a formula that displays {account_no}+{invoice_total}. The problem I am having is that the results need to be 19 characters, with zeros filling in any characters in the middle. For example:
1234567000000234567
As always, thanks for your help!
Edited by jbrandes99 - 28 Jun 2011 at 9:52am
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lockwelle
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Posted: 30 Jun 2011 at 3:45am |
someone else just had this type of issue toText({table.account_no},0,"") + toText({table.invoice_total},ReplicateString("0",15)) or if that doesn't work toText({table.account_no},0,"") + toText({table.invoice_total},"000000000000000") this was assuming that account # was 4 long and part of the 19 in length. you can adjust as needed hopefully 1 of them will work
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jbrandes99
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Posted: 30 Jun 2011 at 5:59am |
When I try either of these formulas I get "too many arguments have been given to this function"
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lockwelle
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Posted: 01 Jul 2011 at 3:07am |
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well, try them one at a time to see which one is bad. I would suspect the 2nd half, but according to CR's help that should be a valid format string.
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jbrandes99
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Posted: 05 Jul 2011 at 6:31am |
I trie breaking it down and still get the error when I place
toText({table.account_no},0,"")
into a new formula.
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hilfy
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Posted: 06 Jul 2011 at 12:24pm |
I assume you're using the correct table and field name from your database. I suspect that account_no is not a numeric field - that it's a varchar of some sort. If that's the case, you don't need "toText".
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jbrandes99
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Posted: 11 Jul 2011 at 9:51am |
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Genius..that was it..thanks so much for your help!
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jbrandes99
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Posted: 20 Jul 2011 at 8:22am |
I just noticed in testing that using these formulas only shows the whole number, i.e., $1.05 displays as $001.
Need a little more help. I need to display the amount as 105 (no currency symbol or decimal just numbers).
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Posted: 20 Jul 2011 at 9:52am |
Change the '0' in the ToText call to however many numbers you want to display after the decimal point.
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jbrandes99
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Posted: 20 Jul 2011 at 10:40am |
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That got the values to display, but I still need to figure out how to get rid of the $ and decimal point from the value. Any takers?
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