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ownedbycats · Yesterday, 03:01 PM

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In my Kobo Wishlist library, #purchasecost is a composite (to calculate discount + tax on store-listed price), output's always {0:,.2f}:

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My main library, the same column is floating-point with ${0:,.2f}.

Is there a technical reason why that couldn't be copied over, or is it just to prevent idiots careless users from accidentally putting text in an integer column?

Yesterday, 03:01 PM	#1
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,567 Karma: 81412473 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Copying between library - datatypes of columns (composite > noncomposite) In my Kobo Wishlist library, #purchasecost is a composite (to calculate discount + tax on store-listed price), output's always {0:,.2f}: My main library, the same column is floating-point with ${0:,.2f}. Is there a technical reason why that couldn't be copied over, or is it just to prevent idiots careless users from accidentally putting text in an integer column?