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Incorrect TextInput binding to number variable
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Fedir Ushakov
When
Input field
component's Value
property is being set to Number
property of app variable, it assigns 500
string value instead of number.Log In
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Stefan Fell
I just encountered this bug when setting a number in a data variable. It took quite long to find out that this is the reason why SUM_BY_KEY on the collection is always returning 0. I am new to this tool and such behavior is quite unexpected.
Kristian Gerkman
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Not sure if this issue was solved at some point in time, but this is relevant once again.
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Greg Florkow
I believe this still not resolved, even setting input field type value as number will still result in a string. Not a major issue - can be overcome easily by running every user number input through NUMBER(), just might be a bit unexpected in some places.
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Harri Sarsa
Merged in a post:
Inputs bound to number-type variables output string values
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Harri Sarsa
If I have an Input component bound to a number-type page variable such as
pageVars.myNumber
, anything typed in by the user will result in a text string value saved to the variable.So if I type 1234, what gets saved is actually the string "1234". To treat it as a number in formulas, you should wrap it in the NUMBER function.
Treating this as a bug; Input field should infer its type from the bound variable's type, as well as allow the type to be set explicitly.
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Harri Sarsa
Yup, need to fix this – you can get around it by manually listening to component onChange event and using e.g.
Set page variable
with NUMBER(outputs[:id].eventValue)
formula, so it casts it to number.