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Asked: 2026-06-16T02:33:43+00:00

I have a variable V{Total} where the pattern ###0.00 is not applied, what am

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I have a variable V{Total} where the pattern ###0.00 is not applied, what am I missing?

<textField pattern="###0.00" isBlankWhenNull="false">
    <reportElement uuid="ea9933c9-1863-474f-a6e2-65cfe3f07426" x="390" y="9" width="144" height="20" forecolor="#000000"/>
    <box>
        <pen lineColor="#999999"/>
        <topPen lineColor="#999999"/>
        <leftPen lineColor="#999999"/>
        <bottomPen lineWidth="0.5" lineColor="#999999"/>
        <rightPen lineColor="#999999"/>
    </box>
    <textElement>
        <font fontName="Verdana" isBold="true" isUnderline="false"/>
    </textElement>
    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$V{Total}+".- €"]]</textFieldExpression>
</textField>
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  1. Editorial Team

    You are trying to format a string:

    $V{Total}+".- €" will be a string, even if the the variable was decimal adding the .-€ will turn it into a string, thus meaning your formatting won’t work

    What you need to do is format the value on its own and the add the trailing characters, try something like this:

    new DecimalFormat("###0.00").format($V{Total})+".- €"

    Full Solution:

    <textField isBlankWhenNull="false">
    <reportElement uuid="ea9933c9-1863-474f-a6e2-65cfe3f07426" x="390" y="9" width="144" height="20" forecolor="#000000"/>
    <box>
        <pen lineColor="#999999"/>
        <topPen lineColor="#999999"/>
        <leftPen lineColor="#999999"/>
        <bottomPen lineWidth="0.5" lineColor="#999999"/>
        <rightPen lineColor="#999999"/>
    </box>
    <textElement>
        <font fontName="Verdana" isBold="true" isUnderline="false"/>
    </textElement>
    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[new DecimalFormat("###0.00").format($V{Total})+".- €"]]></textFieldExpression>
</textField>
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