Number Formatting in Apps

Learn how you can configure decimal precision for numbers shown in Interactive Table, Table Record and Variable widgets.

Overview

In Apps, number formatting lets you control the decimal precision for visualizing number-type data for Interactive Tables widgets, Table Record widgets and Variable widgets showing object variables. You can configure this for each number-type table field and object property in the Fields section of the widget configuration in the right side pane.

Note: This applies to Variable widgets showing object variables or lists of those (vs. other variables or just one specific field of an object variable), Table record widgets showing selected fields of records (vs. just one specific field of a record) and all configurations of Interactive Table widgets.

Default formatting

By default, Tulip is displaying each value with it's own number of decimal places. This number depends on the decimal places that were recorded when the value was stored into Tulip as well as the absolute size of the value.

Customization

You can customize the number of decimal places through the Number formatting dialog:

• Clicking first on the left arrow button sets the display to 2 decimal places.
• Clicking first on the right arrow button sets it to 3 decimal places.
• Further clicks on the left or right arrows decrease or increase the decimal places displayed, respectively, between 0 and 15.

Numbers are rounded up if the next digit is 5 or higher, and down otherwise.

Number formatting can be reset to the default by clicking the Reset button.

Once configuration is complete, the Number formatting dialog can be closed with the Close button or by clicking anywhere outside of it.