I put this under a new page in FAQ
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Code+Snippets
will be going back thru the emails and pulling these out.
David E Jones sent the following on 5/27/2009 10:23 AM:
>
> Actually if it is currency you should NOT use the ?string.currency
> built-in because you can't tell it which currency you want displayed (it
> uses the default currency for the users locale, which is often
> incorrect). That is why we have the @ofbizCurrency transform, for example:
>
> <@ofbizCurrency amount=price.price isoCode=price.currencyUsed/>
>
> -David
>
>
> On May 27, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
>
>> Vikas,
>>
>> I will let you decide. I don't know what the motivation was for making
>> the change.
>>
>> Freemarker knows the user's locale, so numbers should be formatted
>> correctly. If you want a number formatted as currency, then you use
>> the ?string.currency built-in. The result should be currency formatted
>> according to the user's locale.
>>
>> I don't know if the ofbizAmount transform does something in addition
>> to that.
>>
>> Try it out and see.
>>
>> -Adrian
>>
>> Vikas Mayur wrote:
>>> Hi Adrian,
>>> Thanks for the pointer. Do you think we should also change similar
>>> pattern followed in editorderitems.ftl as there are examples for both?
>>> Vikas
>>> On May 27, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
>>>> A simpler way to do this would be to use:
>>>>
>>>> <input size="6" type="text" name="price_${cartLineIndex}"
>>>> value="${price?string.currency}"/>
>>>>
>>>> -Adrian
>>>>
>>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>>> Author: mor
>>>>> Date: Wed May 27 16:06:48 2009
>>>>> New Revision: 779221
>>>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=779221&view=rev
>>>>> Log:
>>>>> Localized Unit Price input field in showcartitems.ftl. Patch from
>>>>> Mridul Pathak, part of OFBIZ-2530
>>>>> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2530)
>>>>> Modified:
>>>>>
>>>>> ofbiz/trunk/applications/order/webapp/ordermgr/entry/cart/showcartitems.ftl
>>>>>
>>>>> Modified:
>>>>> ofbiz/trunk/applications/order/webapp/ordermgr/entry/cart/showcartitems.ftl
>>>>>
>>>>> URL:
>>>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ofbiz/trunk/applications/order/webapp/ordermgr/entry/cart/showcartitems.ftl?rev=779221&r1=779220&r2=779221&view=diff
>>>>>
>>>>> ==============================================================================
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> ofbiz/trunk/applications/order/webapp/ordermgr/entry/cart/showcartitems.ftl
>>>>> (original)
>>>>> +++
>>>>> ofbiz/trunk/applications/order/webapp/ordermgr/entry/cart/showcartitems.ftl
>>>>> Wed May 27 16:06:48 2009
>>>>> @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@
>>>>> <#else>
>>>>> <#assign price = cartLine.getBasePrice()>
>>>>> </#if>
>>>>> - <input size="6" type="text"
>>>>> name="price_${cartLineIndex}" value="${price}"/>
>>>>> + <input size="8" type="text"
>>>>> name="price_${cartLineIndex}" value="<@ofbizAmount amount=price/>"/>
>>>>> </#if>
>>>>> </div>
>>>>> </td>
>
>
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