[ic] price display problem
jojo@buchonline.net
jojo@buchonline.net
Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:39:56 +0100 (CET)
On 10 Nov, Toni Mueller wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> while working on a checkout page and trying to display I
> have the following problem:
>
> I want to display mixed DM and EURO pricing, and after
> some [calc]s decided that I like the [locale] mechanism
> as described in the FAQ better.
>
> In the left column where the price per article is displayed,
> everthing looks nice. In the column to the right where the
> subtotals are, there I find the following problems:
>
> - When simply saying [item-subtotal] inside the locale section,
> it mangles the amount because it somehow wants to calculate
> the new amount based on the string value of the original
> price (which fails since thousands separator is set to '.'),
> resulting in very small amounts if there is a price with at
> least 4 left digits.
> - Working around this using a scratch variable does help to
> display a reasonable amount, but effectively disables any
> quantity or otherwise non-linear pricing (I used [item-price
> [item-quantity] noformat] as a simplistic formula).
> - There is no easy way to get a reasonable subtotal. For no
> reason known to me (yet) the subtotal is at the EURO value
> instead of the DM value, but when displayed in the subtotal
> box, it is shown as DM (and, of course, included with
> [setlocale de_DE]). The corresponding EURO value is also
> only a minor change, not the real amount.
>
> I feel a bit stupid at this point and welcome any hints :(
>
> Btw, this is on Interchange 4.6.0.
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
> --Toni++
I use
[subtotal]
to display the subtotal with DM pricing and after that, I use
[setlocale eur_EUR]
EUR [currency][calc][subtotal noformat=1]*0.5113[/calc][/currency]
[setlocale de_DE]
make sure, you have a right locale setting in your catalog.cfg.
Joachim
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