It's Easier to Read Long Numbers for Entity Attributes

For countries with a devalued currency, numerical attributes contained long numbers.

These were hard to read and were often in error because you couldn't easily see what the number was.

For example, when someone in Thailand recorded a value of ฿600,000,000, it appeared as 600000000 in the attribute.

This made it difficult to detect mistakes.

 

If you're an admin user you can now enable the Treat as currency option.

If you do this, ICM automatically formats the numeric value as a currency.

It adds the currency symbol and separates the zeros to improve readability.

 

If you enable the Treat as currency option:

  • This makes the data type for the text box currency

  • The value is restricted to two decimal places

  • The currency separator will be appropriate for the location

  • You can enter the currency symbol for the location if you want to