Richard Kroll wrote: > 1. Would the salesperson be forced to input the customers order in > pounds even know the local currency for that region is euro's?
that would depend on business requirements. for usability might be better w/that locale's currency. see this testbed for something that might help at least figure out the currency by locale: http://www.sustainablegis.com/projects/i18n/currencyTB.cfm be careful about "fraction digits" when you do input & validation. also note what you see depends entirely on the server's JVM version. > 2. Should we build in a currency converter to the application? depends on business requirements. if you do, be careful about timezones as well as when you want the currency to be converted (when they place take the order locally, place the order w/the main branch, etc.). many exchange rates are moving targets. > 3. Instead of just lsnumberformat() and lseurocurrencyformat(), should > we be converting the amounts to local currency prior to display, and > back again when we need to get user input? again, depends on your business requirements but for usability, yes that's probably a good idea. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:252599 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
