Wednesday, August 31, 2011

DFIU - adding X line data to Exploris - update


For a while ( do a search on X lines or similar to see posts that go back to 2008 ) we have been working on X line data in our Exploris.

Here is an interesting problem - thank we have the answer ... in Excel - make sure your prices are always set to TWO DECIMAL PLACES .... the DFIU seems to count digits and ignores any decimal point .... here are example .....


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The above image shows the part with cost filed as 3.9 ... would have thought that was OK ... but WRONG -- see how the price comes into the system as .39 cents .....


Short answer ( after an hours of calling and looking ) ...make sure your price fields are TWO DECIMAL PLACES

Call # 1838963


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is from the DFIU User Guide...

Price Fields
• Pricing columns are easiest to handle when the format of the column is specified as a ‘Number’, not as ‘Currency’ with 2 decimal places. Set this using the Format, Cells command in Excel.Price field.
• Ensure the Use 1000 Separator (,) check box is not checked. When checked, improper parsing results (same problem as a comma in the description).

Unknown said...

Just before uploading a file to Excel, I always have to highlight all columns with pricing in and use ctrl+1 to open the cell format and change set the format to numbers 2 decimal places. I then save the file and close it, then upload it to DFIU. I never have a problem with pricing if I always reset the number format to 2 decimals as the last thing I do before saving and closing.