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November 2, 2021
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We have XDP form (attached sample) which needs a field to have 10 leading and 8 trailing digits. we have added this pattern to all options (Data/Display/Edit/Validation) num{zzzzzzzzz9.zzzzzzz9} and also added leading and trailing digit number to field tab.

issue start appearing when we have to put trailing digits more than 5.

we put 135,235,234.2509, it shows 135,235,234.25090

we put 135,235,234.250885 it shows 135,235,234.25088501

we put 1,132,235,234.25024 it shows 1,132,235,234.25024009

It put trailing digits randomly and we cannot have this behavior.

Is there a way to fix it or approach differently?

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Best answer by radzmar

Your patterns aren't correct for the decimal places.

Use num{z,zzz,zzz,zz9.88888888} instead. The 8 stands for an optional decimal place which is not 0.

1,132,235,234.25024 will be formatted as 1,132,235,234.25024 an 1,132,235,234.25000000 as 1,132,235,234.25.

To display a fixed number of decimal places use 9 instead of 8.

num{z,zzz,zzz,zz9.99999999} will show always 8 decimal places.

num{z,zzz,zzz,zz9.99998888} will show at least 4 and up to 8 decimal places.

To allow entering of numbers either with or without separators and optional decimal places combine two patterns.

num{zzzzzzzzz9.88888888}|num{z,zzz,zzz,zz9.88888888}

manu-guptaAuthor

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Kosta_Prokopiu1

Adobe Employee

HI @manu-gupta ,

your patterns are too long. Max number of digits are 15, change to num{z,zzz,zzz,zz9.zzzz9} and it will work. In your case 10 digits before and 5 digits after the decimal point.

Kosta

Mayank_Tiwari

Adobe Employee

Remove all the patterns and use the following script on the exit event of the field to add the trailing decimal zeros.

var n = Number(this.rawValue);
this.rawValue = n.toFixed(8);

Kosta_Prokopiu1

Adobe Employee

@mayank_tiwari nice. Only thing is that without patterns you have to enter the numbers as 135235234.250885 but then it gets converted to 135,235,234.250885 .

Mayank_Tiwari

Adobe Employee

Yes, this seems to be the default behavior of JavaScript in Designer.

radzmarAccepted solution

Your patterns aren't correct for the decimal places.

Use num{z,zzz,zzz,zz9.88888888} instead. The 8 stands for an optional decimal place which is not 0.

1,132,235,234.25024 will be formatted as 1,132,235,234.25024 an 1,132,235,234.25000000 as 1,132,235,234.25.

To display a fixed number of decimal places use 9 instead of 8.

num{z,zzz,zzz,zz9.99999999} will show always 8 decimal places.

num{z,zzz,zzz,zz9.99998888} will show at least 4 and up to 8 decimal places.

To allow entering of numbers either with or without separators and optional decimal places combine two patterns.

num{zzzzzzzzz9.88888888}|num{z,zzz,zzz,zz9.88888888}

manu-guptaAuthor

Yes, we are able to achieve close to what we needed but with 7 digits after decimal.

Strangely, with this regex we are having extra decimal like

12345 is changing to 12345.

It is not getting removed or worst we have to add JS overhead to trim last char by getting the value and checking if last char is decimal

Any simpler approach to remove this extra decimal?

Kosta_Prokopiu1

Adobe Employee

🙂 these patterns can be a handfull.

Try this approach:
Display pattern: num{z,zzz,zzz,zz9.88888888}

Edit pattern: num{zzzzzzzzz9.88888888}|num{z,zzz,zzz,zz9.88888888}

no validation and no data pattern.

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