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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okay fine. Blueprint here:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/analytics-skip-rounding-option

Put up for 2.15 for now.

Lars



On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Juma Lungo <jlungo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Lars,
> this sound excellent. If we can control the number of decimal points to be
> displayed as you described here. We will go for zero decimal places or two
> decimal places.
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> Lungo
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>   On Monday, December 2, 2013 2:25 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <
> larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Lars
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> On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Juma Lungo <jlungo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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:
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> http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/reportTables/KmJwftqlU86/data.html
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