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September 20, 2011 5:09pm
Subscribe [2]#1 / Sep 20, 2011 5:09pm
I have a site running on EE 2.2.2, and the client recently reported that several fields are rounding. The fields in question are text inputs with the field content set to “Number”. The fields in question are rounding their values, but only if the values in question are larger values (e.g., “2013687”, “1262463”).
Should I convert the fields in question to be “Integer” fields, and if I do, will I have to worry about any data loss?
#2 / Sep 21, 2011 2:13am
Jason,
I just did a quick test and the fields converted ok with no data loss but it would be advisable to backup regardless.
What do the numbers relate to? Are you doing anything specific with them that you need to set the field content type?
#3 / Sep 21, 2011 2:43am
The site is for an education-related organization. The fields contain numbers of high school/community college enrollments for various states, and some of the numbers can get pretty large. I set them as number fields primarily to force the client into entering the right kind of data and also so that I could do special formatting and/or calculations on the front-end.
#4 / Sep 21, 2011 3:13am
Jasin,
the Integer format holds a number with 10 digits in it.
Does that solve or at least solve your issue?