Typecast not working

Question

Hello Everyone, 
 
 I am using text() or any function in type!{urn:com:appian:types}Test'(). But it seems not working. Can anyone suggest how I can do this? 
 
 Thanks

Sri Ram Kaja · Answer

Hi Manjit, fixed and text will return text but quantity is of number type, I don't think these are useful as anyway those are again converted to number format. 
 Check whether quantity is integer or decimal, if decimal fine. if quantity is integer type, then integer part is only considered

Sri Ram Kaja · Answer

Quantity is of integer type so you cannot have decimal value there, please change the data type

Shubham Aware · Answer

I Would recommend to change dataType of quantity to text or decimal based on your requirement.

Mathieu Drouin · Answer

it's unclear to me why there are so many manipulations being done on the number. 
 sum and round should be sufficient to give you a decimal which you can then format anyway you want for presentation using text/fixed or even a!currency(). https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/24.2/recipe-define-a-simple-currency-component.html 
 And if you need to store that amount, you will need a decimal field in your Test() Data Type.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

If you're trying to convert a number to a string, you simply need "toString()". text() does something altogether separate. 
 Now if you're really needing to take a decimal and make sure your displayed amount is that decimal with a constant number of places, there are various rules available (check out the Appian Functions documentation for the master list, as always), but one of my favorites is "fixed()", which you feed a number and a "number of places" value and it outputs the decimal with that many places (returning a rendered text value).