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Gareth, what happens when we use these new number formats in strings? Are we going to see the number with the field formatting? This is what I have found so troubling with Airtable over the years, is how the string outputs have been so unmanageable.
Great point! The number is still treated as a number, not a string. This means when you use it in automations, the formatting does not come through. To have formatting carry into automations, you need to write a formula that converts your number field to a string 😥
I'm from Brazil, and here we use comma (,) as a decimal separator. when I needed to send data to csv ou xls file always had problems.... great (tiny) new feature.
Nice feature for me in Switzerland where we use 1’000.00 or 1 000.00. Unfortunately the format is lost when using automation to send an email for example. It has been cool to be able to chose a consistency number format for all the numbers in a base.
Agreed! Nice feature, but not helpful in automations. You'll need to convert the number to a string with the formatting you want in order to use it in automations
