Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

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Who knows how to get rid of this auto generated symbol inside barcodeField? It creates false sense of available data thereby affecting my coding logics. The screenshots of both the Interface and expression are attached.

Vinita Jain · Accepted Answer

Hi olalekana0001 
 I tried the same thing that you did and the barcode component seems to be working fine without any infinity error through the local variables. But yes it is not working correctly if you are using rule input of type integer. Adding screenshots. So your solution here would be to use local variables it will not cause any issue unless you are casting it to an integer or you can also use rule input of type text which should also work absolutely fine. 
 Using Local variables:

Using Rule input of type integer:

Mike Schmitt · Answer

That looks like the "infinity" symbol that's sometimes displayed when you attempt to display an integer data type that's too large (which doesn't take much). What do you have the value of "local!barcode" set to? I'm not incredibly familiar with how this field functions but it seems it might be relevant here. Also I suppose you should double check that the value isn't null, since (just guessing) that might cause wacky results too.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

I guess it depends on what your initial value declaration for "local!barcode" was. If it was based on an integer-type Rule Input, then perhaps it would behave in the way you pictured. When I first tried a bare form with a local variable "local!value" with no default value set, and set it to the value and saveInto of an a!barcodeField, and entered a long string of numbers, I noticed that it saved into the local variable as Text type. I had to alter the saveInto to cast the save!value to integer, then i got the "infinity symbol" when entering the same long string of numbers (i.e. 15 "1"s).

Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

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