Question

I have the following in my formula field:

toText(((Sum ({DataTable1.Ending_Value}, {DataTable1.Name})) - (Sum ({DataTable1.Starting_Value}, {DataTable1.Name})) - (Sum ({DataTable1.Investments}, {DataTable1.Name})) + (Sum ({DataTable1.Proceeds}, {DataTable1.Name})) + (Sum ({DataTable1.Interest_and_Dividends}, {DataTable1.Name})))/(Sum ({DataTable1.Starting_Value}, {DataTable1.Name})) * 100)  + " %"

The output is something like: 6.32 %

Instead of having 2 numbers after the decimal, is there any way to only have 1? I tried the following to no luck:

toText(((Sum ({DataTable1.Ending_Value}, {DataTable1.Name})) - (Sum ({DataTable1.Starting_Value}, {DataTable1.Name})) - (Sum ({DataTable1.Investments}, {DataTable1.Name})) + (Sum ({DataTable1.Proceeds}, {DataTable1.Name})) + (Sum ({DataTable1.Interest_and_Dividends}, {DataTable1.Name})))/((Sum ({DataTable1.Starting_Value}, {DataTable1.Name})) * 100),1)  + " %"

b/c the output kept showing me 0.0 % for everything

Next I tried this:

(toText(((Sum ({DataTable1.Ending_Value}, {DataTable1.Name})) - (Sum ({DataTable1.Starting_Value}, {DataTable1.Name})) - (Sum ({DataTable1.Investments}, {DataTable1.Name})) + (Sum ({DataTable1.Proceeds}, {DataTable1.Name})) + (Sum ({DataTable1.Interest_and_Dividends}, {DataTable1.Name})))/(Sum ({DataTable1.Starting_Value}, {DataTable1.Name})) * 100)  + " %"),1)

No luck with that either.

Anybody have any ideas?

Answer 1

Have you tried using the number formatting options you get when you right-click on the field and select ‘format object’? It is way easier than trying to get ToText() to do what you want.

Edit: If you want to use ToText(), try using a format string instead of 1 as your second parameter – I think this will do it:

ToText(sum(...) + sum(...), "0.0")