Custom field functions and field formatting options can be used to format numeric values in a variety of ways. For example, here the data contains ‘value’ and ‘appearance’ is at it should be displayed:
| value | appearance |
| 636000 | 636,000 |
| 20000 | 20,000 |
| 1400000 | 1.4 Million |
| 6200000 | 6.2 Million |
| 473000000 | 473 Million |
| 40000000 | 40 Million |
| 45000000 | 45 Million |
| 7100000000 | 7.1 Billion |
| 2200000000 | 2.2 Billion |
| 15800000 | 15.8 Million |
The field ‘value’ would need to use a ‘custom’ format, to force the use of comma for thousands, like this:
[PRECISION=2]
[THOUSANDS=,]
Then a custom field called “appearance” is created using the following command:
IF(FIELDVAL(value), >, 999999999.999,CONCAT(ROUNDVAL(DIV(FIELDVAL(value),1000000000),2,TRUE), ' Billion'),IF(FIELDVAL(value), >, 999999.999,CONCAT(ROUNDVAL(DIV(FIELDVAL(value),1000000),2,TRUE), ' Million'),FIELDSTR(value)))
