Locale
Locale refers to the formatting of date, datetime, number, and currency fields. The following table explains the locale support for different data types.
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Data Type
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Behaviour
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Date, DateTime
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Based on device settings. For information on changing the time zone, see Time Zone.
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Number, Currency andPercentage
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Output Documents
Decimal seperator '.' and thousand seperator ',' displayed as per the user locale in the Salesforce profile.
Others (Calendar and SFM screens)
Decimal separator is displayed as per the device locale. Thousandth seperator is displayed only on view process and is as per device locale.
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Precision is the maximum number of digits allowed (18 ), includes digits before and after the decimal point. Scale is the maximum number of digits allowed after decimal point, and is applied on rounding off the value. Both Precision and Scale are as configured for Number, Percentage and Currency fields in the Salesforce data model.
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LNUMBER function should be configured in the Output document template for any arithmetic calculation when you want to display the value of number, percentage and currency fields as per the user locale.
Example of using LNUMBER in number format: $LNUMBER($ADD(field1, field2....), scale);
For more information, see Number Function.
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