Holy moly! Thanks David! That's a huge help. If you're ever in the
vicinity of downtown Los Angeles, the beers are all on me.

 

I wonder if I can apply the same logic somehow to Timeplot...and whether
I could get the same thing working for percentage values (ex. 76%). 

 

Benj. 

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:07 PM
To: General List
Subject: Re: Currency formatting in Exhibit

 

3/11/08

 

Ben:

 

I recently figured out the answer to the currency issue.  For me what
works is:

 

In the <head>

 

<script type="text/javascript"> 

 

     Exhibit.Formatter._CurrencyFormatter.prototype.formatText = 

     function(value) { 

       var number; 

       if (this._decimalDigits == -1) { 

         number = value.toString(); 

       } 

       else { 

         number = new Number(value).toFixed(this._decimalDigits); 

       } 

       number = addCommas(number); 

       return number; 

     }; 

 

function addCommas(nStr) 

{ 

   nStr += ''; 

   x = nStr.split('.'); 

   x1 = x[0]; 

   x2 = x.length > 1 ? '.' + x[1] : ''; 

   var rgx = /(\d+)(\d{3})/g; 

   while (rgx.test(x1)) { 

     x1 = x1.replace(rgx, '$1' + ',' + '$2'); 

   } 

   return "$" + x1 + x2; 

}

 

   </script> 

 

For the view I use the following structure:

   

  <div ex:role="view"  

                    ex:viewClass="Tabular"

                    ex:label="Table View of School District &#37 Revenue
>From Pennsylvania"

                    ex:columns=".SchoolDistrict, .InstCity, .CountyName,
.IUName, .APERCENTSTATESCALE, .TSTREVALL"

                    ex:columnLabels="School District, City, County,
Intermediate Unit, &#37; of Revenue From PA, Amount of PA Revenue"

                    ex:formats="currency {decimal-digits :0}"

                    ex:columnFormats="list, list, list, list, number,
currency"

                 ex:sortColumn="0"

                    ex:sortAscending="true"

                    ></div>

                

 

I use EditGrid to populate my Exhibit and have the currency numbers
formatted as 00000 (with one extra leading 0, in other words if my
largest number is 12345 I have 6 zeros for the formatting.  Change the
{decimal-digits :0} to {decimal-digits :2} if you want to show
$12345.67.

 

--

David L. Cohen

 

On Mar 11, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Welsh, Ben wrote:





Hello listers,

 

First time post here. Please indulge any breaches of etiquette. 

 

I've searched the list archive and reviewed the wiki docs I could find,
but I'm not coming across a suitable solution for formatting currency
values in Exhibit's tabular view. I've issued code like this...

 

                <div ex:role="view"

                    ex:viewClass="Tabular"

                    ex:columns=".label, .Revenue, .Return, .Percent,
.Years"

                    ex:columnLabels="Charity, Total Revenue, Total
Return, Percent Return, Years Reported"

                    ex:columnFormats="list, currency {symbol :'$M';},
currency, number, list"

                    >

                </div>

 

...to no effect. I see a previous post from a couple months back that
touched on some problems getting currency support to work, but couldn't
find a thorough response. 

 

I'm curious what experiences other people have had trying to format
currency values. Is it something you've got working, and I'm just making
errors on my end? Or is there some trick I don't have down?

 

While I'm at it, is it possible with Simile's formatting system to add
commas that delimit out numeric values when they reach into the millions
and thousands (Ex. $100,000).

 

Thanks,

 

Ben Welsh

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