Hi there, many thanks for all the feedback and the votes.
The feedback clearly tells that there are multiple needs / views out there, and that having this configurable per system is desired. So we will turn this into a system setting for 2.24. Issues: https://github.com/dhis2/settings-app/issues/62 https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-pivot/issues/5 Thanks again for the feedback. regards, Lars On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Bob Jolliffe <[email protected]> wrote: > I *think* we discuss the space separator business purely related to > display. So when exporting to excel, or any other case where the > number is expected to be consumed as a number (including storage in > the database), exported via api in json/xml datavalueset etc there > should be no spaces, commas etc. Confusion on this would be a recipe > for disaster. > > Everyone seems to agree that how numbers display should be > configurable. Though I thought the question was more what would be > the default appearance in the absence of any configuration. In which > case there are only two approaches: (i) pick something, in which case > space seems to be the most standard default, or (ii) infer something > based on the locale. > > On 4 May 2016 at 09:56, Lars Helge Øverland <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > many thanks for all the feedback. Will make this configurable per system > > then given the all the various opinions. > > > > > > Another point of clarification: It seems that space is a preferred > separator > > in the Web based pivot table. However, when downloading to Excel, it > seems > > space is useless as it makes Excel interpret the cell as text, not > numbers. > > > > So as a short term solution (which could be back-ported) could be that > when > > downloading to Excel, the system could fall back to no separator when > space > > is selected as separator. This because space never seems useful for Excel > > spreadsheets. > > > > Would that work? > > > > > > regards, > > > > Lars > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > -- Lars Helge Øverland Lead developer, DHIS 2 University of Oslo Skype: larshelgeoverland [email protected] http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/>
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