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Arun BalaArun Bala 

Thousand's separator ..

Folks,

I have a decimal which I need to display with thousands separator on a visualforce page. An outputText displays that value.

 

E.g: now it is 5360. I wanted it to be displayed as : 5,360

 

Any suggestions or ideas on how can I convert the decimal to the currency format ?? unforunately, I cannot use the exact sObject field as I am using a wrapper class.

 

 

Thanks folks.

Best Answer chosen by Admin (Salesforce Developers) 
dchasmandchasman

Even when you are using a wrapper class you can still leverage a proxy instance of an sobject (any sobject type that has a currency field will work - although you might need to use a custom field for this to get the formating you want) in your wrapper class that you push the value you want to display using an apex:outputField into. For example (you'll have to adapt this to your wrapper class of course):

 

 

<apex:page controller="CurrencyProxyDemoController">
    <apex:outputField value="{!proxy.annualRevenue}"/>
</apex:page>

public class CurrencyProxyDemoController {
    public Account getProxy() {
        proxy.annualRevenue = 123456.78;
        return proxy;
    }

    private final Account proxy = new Account();
}
 
 
 


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Arun BalaArun Bala
Folks any hints ? This is lil urgent for me, sorry :-(


David VPDavid VP
Try this :
 
 
<apex:page controller="testdecimalController">
  <apex:outputText value="{!testdecimalformatted}"></apex:outputText>
</apex:page>


public class testdecimalController {

    public Decimal testdecimal {get;set;}
    
    public testdecimalController() {
        this.testdecimal = 10000000000.00;
    }
    
    //getter method for a formatted version for display
    public String getTestdecimalformatted() {
        return testdecimal.format();
    }
}
 
 -david-
 


Arun BalaArun Bala
Thanks for the quick response David. This works for the comma, the new issue is I lose the decimal if I use .format()


Arun BalaArun Bala
Folks - do anyone know any other approach for this issue ? Thanks.


dchasmandchasman
Even when you are using a wrapper class you can still leverage a proxy instance of an sobject (any sobject type that has a currency field will work - although you might need to use a custom field for this to get the formating you want) in your wrapper class that you push the value you want to display using an apex:outputField into. For example (you'll have to adapt this to your wrapper class of course):
 
 
<apex:page controller="CurrencyProxyDemoController">
    <apex:outputField value="{!proxy.annualRevenue}"/>
</apex:page>

public class CurrencyProxyDemoController {
    public Account getProxy() {
        proxy.annualRevenue = 123456.78;
        return proxy;
    }

    private final Account proxy = new Account();
}
 
 
 
This was selected as the best answer
Arun BalaArun Bala
Thanks for your response Doug. Yes I think I would need to have a custom field to define my own formatting.
 
 
Thanks again.