RE: Current balance

Bill Bongiorno ( (no email) )
Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:57:12 -0400

The currency symbol in regional settings is $ as it should be. All of the
choices for negative number format have either brackets of a minus sign.
What I can't understand is why it is being treated as a negative, instead of
a positive, number.

Bill Bongiorno
SysTec Computer Associates, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: emerald-request@iea-software.com
> [mailto:emerald-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Josh Hillman
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 1998 10:13 AM
> To: emerald@iea-software.com
> Subject: Re: Current balance
>
>
> > From: Bill Bongiorno <bill@systec.com>
> > The amount owed by a customer shows as a bracketed (negative?) amount.
> This
> > conflicts with page 66 of the user documentation where the
> amount owed of
> > 12.23 shows without brackets. Is this the way it is supposed to
> be, or do
> I
> > have a problem? Thanks for any help.
>
> Go into your Control Panel on the machine running Emerald and double-click
> on
> Regional Settings. Click on the Currency tab and change it to be -$1.1
> (or whatever you want).
>
> I don't know if you have to restart Emerald after making that
> change. It's
> just a display setting--not something that's stored in the database
>
> Josh Hillman
> hillman@talstar.com
>