How to handle different locale in symbols?

Question

Hi All,

Depending on the locale setting of the user accessing Coresight (meaning you have no control at all), data sent to the symbol uses the locale of the user. E.g. 123,456.789 and 123.456,789 are all valid numbers but are quite reversed when using e.g. european versus american locale.

Any ideas how to properly handle this in a symbol? parseFloat won't work. the Globalize.js library Globalize.js · GitHub requires to know the locale we are working in. And about there my knowledge ends...

I won't be the first one needing to deal with this, so curious what solutions people have chosen.

Community User · Accepted Answer

You can apply custom format to returned numbers with the FormatType property in the getDefaultConfig() function. It uses standard .NET string formatting: Standard Numeric Format Strings | Microsoft Docs

Important note: when you update this property, it's not applied to the symbol unless you recreate it (just the same way as with the DataShape property).

Here is an example:

getDefaultConfig: function(){

return {

...

FormatType: "N2"

}

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Edit: Adding one more example for FormatType: "F5"

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Cheers,

Anna