Fields involving costs in adobe form - '$' symbol not showing up

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I have a field in my adobe form in which the end user needs to enter the cost for a certain process.

The field should display that cost in the form of $ 9999.99 (for eg).

In the Object palette, I have specified the display pattern for this field as $ 9999.99. However when I generate the form and key in some numbers in the cost field, '$' symbol is not appearing. Some other symbol is showing up.

Anyone had this issue before ? Any help is appreciated !

thanks.

Liz

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Do you have a space in the display pattern field? if so, remove that.

also, you may want to put the same pattern in the edit pattern field, too

[ChrisSolomon]

Word of caution....set the display attribute to show the "$" but the edit attribute not too....otherwise, it will try to send the "$" to the backend and most likely throw an error.

[Former Member]

Hi Robert/Chris,

There is no space in the pattern I gave. I tried all the patterns available and it still gives me a wierd symbol and not '$'.

This wierd symbol keeps showing up irrespective of the fact whether I fill the 'Edit Pattern' or not.

I am not able to copy the symbol to show it to you guys.

I am using Vista. Can you advise whether this issue is related to Vista.

I am reaching a dead end. Please advise.

Best,

Liz

[Former Member]

The requirement for '$' to be seen was removed; thus I am closing this post. However this issue is still a mystery!