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16-digit numbers get rounded in report cells #2291

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stellanl opened this issue Oct 30, 2017 · 5 comments
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16-digit numbers get rounded in report cells #2291

stellanl opened this issue Oct 30, 2017 · 5 comments

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@stellanl
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stellanl commented Oct 30, 2017

The changes in #267 did not fully take very large numbers into account.
Users have been collecting 16-digit ID numbers that then misbehave in the exported Excel sheets. They expect them to not be rounded or shown in "scientific" format.
Luckily, in most of Flow, a NUMBER answer is just like a TEXT answer but with different value checking. So no data has been lost.
The answer is not quite clear-cut. We can put any large number in text cells during the export, but users that collect large numbers where not every digit is significant presumably still want them in number cells.

We could add a comment to cells that were changed to string to make it more obvious that they need to be changed back if the user needs to do math on them.

https://flowhelp.reamaze.com/admin/conversations/akvoflow-support-request-number-80157-from-aulia-at-akvo-dot-org

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@stellanl I checked the file you shared this morning and it is a bit odd when I open it. I think there should be a comment there, but I see just a little line.

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Why did you close the issue @stellanl ?

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stellanl commented Dec 7, 2017

Oops, I may have gotten a little too enthusiastic moving it around in waffle...

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screen shot 2017-12-12 at 14 51 49

Long numbers show fully. All good

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