ssolberg
VIP Member
With World Writer reports, like all others, you can change the Edit Code on numeric fields to be a variety of things, one of which is the use of the "floating" negative symbol (edit codes N-Q) so the negative symbol floats at the beginning of a numeric field instead of being at the end of them.
I recently needed to download a World Writer to a file (that I have such fields editted) and noticed that when I looked at the file, all these fields DID NOT have the negative symbol floating any longer. It is stuck on the end of the fields instead.
Does the Edit Code not work when outputting to a file?? And what does the "Packed To Zoned" attribute under the Additional Parameters really do? I tried changing it to a '1' but it didn't seem to make any changes. Tell me I'm missing something really easy here... I really gotta get the negative symbol to float so we can import these World Writers directly into Excel and download to "flat files" for export to outside sources. Help?
I recently needed to download a World Writer to a file (that I have such fields editted) and noticed that when I looked at the file, all these fields DID NOT have the negative symbol floating any longer. It is stuck on the end of the fields instead.
Does the Edit Code not work when outputting to a file?? And what does the "Packed To Zoned" attribute under the Additional Parameters really do? I tried changing it to a '1' but it didn't seem to make any changes. Tell me I'm missing something really easy here... I really gotta get the negative symbol to float so we can import these World Writers directly into Excel and download to "flat files" for export to outside sources. Help?