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[Brajesh Murari <bramurari@xxxxxxxxx>]

In rural and tribals 'Hindi' language, "DeciMal" word does't sounds
effective and standard, and in some of the DHIS implementing states, users
had already had requested to customise data entry form with massage like
"DeciMal Values Are Not Allowed For Data Entry Form", specially in case, if
any user will try to enter decimal value with dot in data entry screen. I
think Bob suggestion makes effective sense to use "number" instead,
because if we can't use 'Real Number' than we also can't use 'non complex
number'.

Let,s see how About is preparing to fix this controversial bug.

Regards
Brajesh Murari
Dunno. Floating point sounds much geekier than "real number", although it
is of course technically more correct. Maybe "Decimal number"?

I think the more problematic issue is the API and how decimals appear to be
"int", which led to this bug, which of course is misleading.

Regards,
Jason


On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think Jason's suggestion makes good sense.  It doesn't make intuitive
> sense that people should interpret Number to mean real number as distinct
> to integer.  Though maybe "real number" is slightly too mathematical a term
> for some users.  I wonder is "floating point" less technical or moreso?
> Either way lets try and agree on an alternative to just Number.
>
> On 20 January 2015 at 13:17, Abyot Gizaw <abyota@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Yes kind of confusing ... that is why I ended up with the bug. Since I
>> was getting int through the web-api, I simply used parseInt ... hence the
>> rounding.
>>
>>
>> ---
>> Thank you,
>> Abyot.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Jason Pickering <
>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Abyot,
>>> Thanks for the quick fix.
>>>
>>> It is a bit confusing from the API I must admit. In the UI, these data
>>> elements are defined as "Value type" = Number and Number type = "Number",
>>> but in the API JSON response, it comes out as "int" for the "type".
>>>
>>> It might be work considering to change the Number type to "Real" instead
>>> of "Number". It is fairly obvious it is a number. :)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Abyot Gizaw <abyota@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Jason,
>>>>
>>>> Yes, they were converted to Integer. This is fixed now in trunk.
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Abyot.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Jason Pickering <
>>>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Devs,
>>>>> We have some data values which are numerically precise to two decimal
>>>>> places. In the trackedentitydatavalue table, the numbers are correct as
>>>>> they should be, but in the UI, they appear to be truncated or possibly
>>>>> rounded to the nearest integer. Could someone confirm this is the case? If
>>>>> so, I think it is a bug, as the data elements have been defined to be
>>>>> numeric, and not integers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Jason
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jason P. Pickering
>>>>> email: jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>> tel:+46764147049
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