Numeric Field Options

Numeric fields store signed integers, floating point values, or fixed precision values. Numeric fields can be used as weights in Trend reports. When you use weights, be sure to set a default value, or set the field as required. (See Attributes Tab of the Field Property Editor for details.)

Style

Select the format you want displayed as values.

Some large integer and floating point values are reserved for internal use. Integer values larger than 2147483643 and floating point numbers between 4294967292.000 and 4294967295.99999 cannot be used in Numeric fields for this reason.

You cannot change the style of a Numeric field after a process app is published. For example, you cannot change an integer field to a floating point field. However, there is a way to reset the field and change it if you intend to deploy the process app to a different environment. For more information, see Modifying Locked Elements in a Published Process App.

SBM respects the regional option set for your computer for floating point and fixed precision values. For example, if your regional option is "Czech," a comma is used instead of a decimal point.

Display

• Integer

  The maximum positive integer accepted is 2147483643, and the minimum negative integer accepted is –2147483648.

• Floating point

  The maximum and minimum accepted range of values are determined by your server hardware.

• Fixed precision

  The maximum and minimum accepted range of values are determined by your server hardware.

• Digits displayed after the decimal point

  Specify the number of digits (with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 15) you want to appear after the decimal point. This option is available only when the Fixed precision option is enabled.

• Prefix and Suffix
  Type any plain text and HTML tags you want to display before and after the field's values. Note the following:

  • The rendered HTML is visible in preview mode and at runtime, but not in the form editor.
  • HTML formatting applies to the prefix and suffix for the field label, but not to the value of the field.
  • Use the &lt; and &gt; character entities to display the less than (<) or greater than (>) signs, respectively. Otherwise, these signs will be interpreted as HTML code. Use the &nbsp; character entity for each extra space you want to display.
  • By default, there is no space between the field value and its prefix or suffix. If you want a space to appear between the prefix or suffix and the field value, then you must add spaces.
  Note: For best results, formatting changes should be applied using styles on custom forms rather than by adding HTML tags to the field's prefix and suffix. For more advanced HTML formatting, create a custom form for your workflow, and then add an HTML/JavaScript widget to the form.
• Show thousands separator
  Select this option to display values with commas (such as "1,000" for "1000").

  Note: SBM Composer respects the regional option set for your computer. For example, if your regional option is "Czech," a space is used instead of a comma.
• Span entire row on forms

  Select this option to make this field the only field to appear on a single row.

Search & Query

• Appears in report field lists

  Select this option to include the field in lists on report forms. If you clear this option after the field is used in reports, the changed setting is ignored for those reports and the field is still shown until it is removed from the report definition.

• Appears on lookup form and relational field value lookup

  Select this option to add the field to the Auxiliary Data search forms and the Advanced Lookup Tool and Relational Field Value Lookup forms.

  The field order for the Advanced Lookup Tool and Relational Field Value Lookup forms for primary items is determined by the default field order of the table's first project in the project hierarchy. Projects are defined in Application Administrator.

• Appears on searches for this table

  Select this option to specify that the field will be available for selection on the Advanced Search page. This setting applies to primary and auxiliary tables. This option also adds the field as a facet for searches against a single application in Serena Work Center. See Configuring Advanced Search for additional information.