Creating an $Amount attribute & formatting its value

[jprint714 (JESP)]

@mwra

Yes, but you don’t say where (and I did ask!). I’m not trying to be obtuse but it does matter as you can’t format as a displayed number.

You did ask, and I somehow overlooked that. So, I was imagining that the numbers in question would fill the value(s) for the $Amount attribute. Does that answer your question?

@mwra

You can re-format the number as a string but you can’t then, for instance show that string in a Displayed Attributes table cell that shows data from a Number cell as it can’t display a string.

This might be a stupid question, but: Can I still use a string if there are multiple number values?

Also, I’m working on a file that’s different than the one that we worked on together (though it’s using some elements of that file / approach), and so I’ve got a $MyString in use (and might even have a $MyString1 attribute). I’m guessing that means I should create a $MyString2 ?

Finally, I did look at the Number.format(decimalsN[,widthN][,padStr]) page and the Formatting for currency with/without decimal places post, and thought that I needed to combine two sets of code (hence the formatting question, which was based on my misapprehension). Anyway, because I might use numbers with & without decimals I thought that this might be the right approach…

$MyString=$Amount.format("$")+"\n";
$MyString+=$Amount.format("$0")+"\n";

If the string formulation is the way to go, I’ll give it a shot and report back.