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Number Format allows user to enter the text in the Text based UI Parts in form of Numbers. This can be set in the "Display format" property of the UI part.

Steps for using Number format property as Display Format on Page Editor.

Step 1: From the properties available for UI Parts, select Display Format as Number from the options available.

Step 2: User can select any data type for number format from the options shown in the image below.

numberformat_number

Number Data type:

DataType	Description
boolean	Boolean is the data type which has two values "0" or "1".Usually its denoted "false" or "true" ,OR "no" or "yes".
double	Double is a number which can be written with a fractional or decimal component.
integer	An Integer is a number that can be written without a fractional or decimal component.

Step 3: Select Number Format

•If user selects data type as Integer following options are available for selecting the number format.

numberformat_number_integer

•If user selects data type as Boolean following options are available for selecting the number format.

numberformat_number_boolean

•If user selects data type as Double following options are available for selecting the number format.

numberformat_number_float

Step 4: Enter Number Display Format which appears on selection of integer and float Number Formats.

•If user selects data type as Double and the format is selected as Float then additional field “Number Display Format” has to be specified by the user as shown below.

numberformat_number_double_float

•Similarly If user selects data type as Integer format is selected as Decimal then additional field “Number Display Format” has to be specified by the user as shown

numberformat_number_integer_integer

Number Format

Following number format will be set by page editor and runtime should use them to convert the internal number data type to external string or from external string to internal number data.

Number Format	Description
d	decimal number. From "0" to "9" and prefix "+" or "-" characters are accepted.
t	"true" or "false" string are accepted.
y	"yes" or "no" string are accepted
b	binary number. "0" or "1" characters are accepted
o	octal number. From "0" to "7" characters are accepted.
x	hexadecimal number. From "0" to "9" and From "a" to "f" characters are accepted.
f	float number. From "0" to "9" and "." and prefix "+" or "-" characters are accepted.
e	float number. From "0" to "9" and "." and prefix "+" or "-" and "e" characters are accepted.

Conversion from basic number string to internal value

Input text	Format	Result	Description
0 or 1	d	integer or boolean	It's integer internally.
true or false	t	boolean	It is converted to integer (0 or 1) internally.
yes or no	y	boolean	It is converted to integer (0 or 1) internally.
integer string	d	integer
bit string	b	integer
octal string	o	integer
hexadecimal string	x	integer
float string	f	double
float string	e	double

Number Display Format:

Format	Description
9	Display one digit number. You can specify the number of digits using some "9" characters.
0	Display one digit numer. It will show "0" even if the number of digits is not enough to display.
,	it will display the comma for each specified digits position.
.	Display the 1 character of numeric point.
U	Round Up 四捨五入 (new)
C	Cut Off 切り捨て (new)
A	Round Away 切り上げ (new)

Example use cases:

Format	Value	Display
999	12	12
999	1234	1234
999	11.24	11
99,999,999	12	12
99,999,999	1234	1,234
99,999,999	11.24	1
99,999,999	12345678	12,345,678
99,999,999.9U	11.56	11.6
99,999,999.9C	11.56	11.5
99,999,999.9A	11.56	11.6
000	12	012
000	1234	1234
000	11.24	011
00,000,000	12	00,000,012
00,000,000	1234	00,001,234
00,000,000	11.24	00,000,011
00,000,000	12345678	12,345,678
00,000,000.0U	11.56	00,000,011.6
00,000,000.0C	11.56	00,000,011.5
00,000,000.0A	11.56	00,000,011.6