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Long Date/Timedisplaysthedateasamediumdateandthetimeasamediumtime,for
example1. April 2016 00:00:00 EDT.
Fontstyle
Textoriginatingfromvariabledatacanbedisplayedinuppercase,lowercaseorpropercase.
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Uppercase transformsallcharacterstouppercase.
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Lowercase displaystransformsallcharacterstolowercase.
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Propercase transformsthefirstcharacterofeachwordtouppercaseandallothercharactersto
lowercase.
Numbersandcurrencies
Numbers,andstringsexistingofdigits,canbedisplayedasanumberwithacertainformattingorasan
amountofmoney.Thereareafewpresets,butyoucanalsotypeaformatmask.
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Custom Pattern:allowsyoutoenteracustomformatmask.Forexample,thepattern000000
meansthatthenumbershouldcountsixdigits;leadingzerosareaddedtonumbersshorterthan
sixdigits.Foranoverviewofpatternsymbolssee"Numberpatterns"onpage1196andhttp://-
docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/DecimalFormat.html.Inthedatamappingcon-
figuration,setthefieldtypetoInteger,FloatorCurrency.Whenyouopenadatafileordatabase,
allfieldsaretextfields(fieldsofthetypestring).
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Standard:displaysthenumberwiththedefaultpatternandsymbolsforthecurrentLocale.
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Groupeddisplaysanumberwiththreedecimalplacesandsetsthethousandsseparatorforthe
valuebasedonthecurrentlocale;see"Locale"onpage706.
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Currencydisplaysanumberasanamountofmoney,withathousandsseparatorandroundedto
twodecimalplaces,basedonthecurrentlocale;see"Locale"onpage706.
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Currency no symboldoesthesameasCurrency,butomitsthecurrencysymbol.
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Leading zeroaddsaleadingzerotoafloatingvaluebetween0and1.Thisformatisonlyavail-
ableforfieldsthatcontainafloatvalue.Notethatwhenyouopenadatafileordatabase
withoutadatamappingconfiguration,allfieldsareofthetypestring.
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∑ (Sum)and∑↑ (Sum Up)areusedinDetailTablesinaPrintcontext.∑isfortransportrulesat
theendofapageand∑↑showsthesubtotalofthepreviouspage.
Showing content conditionally
Onewaytopersonalizecontentistoshoworhideoneormoreelementsdependingonthevalueofa
datafieldorruntimeparameter.Forexample,aparagraphwrittenforCanadiancustomerscouldbehid-
denwhentherecipientoftheletterisnotlivinginCanada,ifthatcanbederivedfromthedata.
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