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Re: Handling Decimal Numbers in DHIS2

 

Okay Lungo, I understand. The issue is that in most cases, 1 decimal is
appropriate. Then, some people want no decimals and some want no rounding
at all.

I assume your use-case is that you save a pivot table (report table) as a
favorite, then use it as source for a financial standard report designed in
ireport.

I propose this: We introduce a new option in pivot table module (and in
analytics api) called "Skip rounding of values". When ticket, we do not
round off the values at all, providing full precision for values (we are
using double<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Double.html>as
value type in the api). Then, you can select this option for your
table
and leave it to ireport to round off to the appropriate number of decimals
(use the number format). How does that sound to you?

Lars



On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Juma Lungo <jlungo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Lars
>
> Since we are using the DHIS2 to compute financial figures, we need to
> display the values either in two decimal places or zero decimal places. Not
> one decimal places. Now, if we format our iReports to zero decimal places,
> when a user enters say 6.47, the database will convert it into 6.5 and
> iReport will convert it to 7. Thus, a user enters 6.47, instead of getting
> 6 she end up getting 7. It is a big challenge for us.
>
> Lungo
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>   On Sunday, December 1, 2013 9:28 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <
> larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  For a pivot table example see here:
>
> http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/reportTables/KmJwftqlU86/data.html
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