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RandyThompson's avatar
RandyThompson
New Contributor III
3 years ago

How can we show commas as the thousand separator in a numeric Table View column

We are trying to format numeric columns in a Table View but haven't been successful. The numeric columns are currently appearing as 999999.99 instead of the desired 99,999.99. Are Table View currentl...
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ckattookaran's avatar
ckattookaran
Valued Contributor
3 years ago

Randy, you will have to get rid of the column format and use the populate from data table option with the keep format from data boolean.

RandyThompson's avatar
RandyThompson
New Contributor III
3 years ago

Thanks, Celvin. Unfortunately I can't find any documentation on this. Can you share a snippet of code of how to use the populate from data table. Thanks.

  • JackLacava's avatar
    JackLacava
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    3 years ago

    Didn't test this but it should work.

    ' assuming yourDataTable will have been obtained already
Dim includeColHeaderRow as Boolean = True
Dim useDataTypes as Boolean = True  ' try switching this on/off to compare results
args.TableView.PopulateFromDataTable(dataTable, includeColHeaderRow, useDataTypes)
return args.TableView
    • sfilho's avatar
      sfilho
      New Contributor III
      3 years ago

      Hi Jack,

      Where I should create the datatable? Is the datatable a different table view?

      Thx

      • JackLacava's avatar
        JackLacava
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        3 years ago

        DataTable is an object representing an SQL-like table in memory. It's a standard .Net class. For a simple example, check out this blog post - it's for Dashboard DataSets, but around halfway through it shows a simple example of querying a database to get a DataTable object. You can also check out https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/dataset-datatable-dataview/creating-a-datatable or just search this forum, there are plenty of examples. Note that you don't have to perform a database query to get a DataTable, they can be created in memory from scratch.