Regional Settings Decimal Notation

Hi - Quick question here
I want to default a specific Decimal Notation for our field sales team and do not want them to have to go to the Personalize menu to change. How do I do this? I have reviewed the Admin Guide but could not find any details on how to do this.
Thanks,
Jeff

Hi Jeff,
The decimal notation depends on the personalized settings of each user.
In the current release of the system these changes are user specific i.e. all your users will have to change it with their respective logins to be able to use the required decimal notation.
I’ve heard there is a plan to deliver a report which enables changing decimal notation for mass employees, but there is no commitment for this.
Best Regards,
Cristiano Rosa

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Decimal Notation settings

Dear Community,
I would like to know if is it possible use on SAP the " . " key of the numeric keyboard as a " , " symbol like we use on MS Excel by regional settings done on Control Panel of windows OS. In excel If I press the " . " on numeric keyboard we get a " , " by regional settings as I said.
I have set my User profile / own data / Decimal Notation with 1.234.567,89 but doesn't work. Also, our "Country global parameter" (OY01) decimal foramt, is set as 1.234.567,89
The regional settings on Windows OS is set for decimal notation as 1.234.567,89 but SAP always get the " . " key of the numeric keyboard as a ". " not like the desired " , ".
Could anybody help me with this?
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Scottie

Hi Nils,
Thanks for your reply. I have checked on Control Panel / Regional Settings / Regional options / customize your own format is set with our language (country), so number notation is: 123.456.789,00.
On MS Excel I can check this settings is working OK, so on numeric keyboard part, if I push the "." key, on Excel we get an "," symbol instead "." so regional settings is working ok ouside SAP.
On SAP, on menu System / User Profile / Own Data / Default sheet / Logon Language and Decimal notation is set like 1.234.567,89 ,as Control Panel on Windows OS but when I push on numeric keyboard part the "." key we get the same symbol "." instead desired ",".
We are using SAPGUI 720 patch 6 but we have tested with SAPGUI 710 patch 19 with same wrong result.
If I change as you told me on SAPGUI the decimal notation to 1,234,567.89 works ok because get the "." as decimal format, but we need to use "," symbol.
What could be the reason for this?
Thanks in advance
Regards
Scottie

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Again this works fine in the development enviroment, sending 1.234 reads 1.234 with German regional settings.
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You can use a simple function of the "Scan from string" function.
Place "%.;" (Without the quotes) in the scanning string, and this will tell LV to use a decimal point for interpretation. If you place "%,;", this will tell it to use a comma.
You can place this at the beginning of your format string, and it simply tells the parser how to work, it doesn't otherwise produce an output.
Using simply "%;" sets the seperator to the system default (maybe the best idea after the code has been run as the changed decimal point character apparently remains changed otherwise). From the LV help
The following codes control the decimal separator used for numeric output. These codes do not cause any input or output to occur. They change the decimal separator for all further inputs/outputs until the next %; is found.
%,; comma decimal separator
%.; period decimal separator
%; system default separator
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Actually you have the problem into server.
I think you have the regional settings wrong into server.
We have actually many customers using French, German, Dutch language having "," for decimal separator and it is working fine.
It is not working when actually the settings into the server are not English US.
Please check the follow keys from application server:
HKEY_USERS - .Default - Control Panel - International
HKEY_USERS - S-1-18.. - Control Panel - International
HKEY_USERS - S-1-19 ..- Control Panel - International
HKEY_USERS - S-1-20 ..- Control Panel - International
HKEY_USERS - S-1-21..- Control Panel - International
HKEY_USERS - S-1-21........ ..- Control Panel - International
These keys should be sett all for english US. If it is at least one not correct that can cause problems with sending data.
Regards
Sorin Radulescu

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For UK based vendors amount are passed to the cheque in the format 10,000.00 (Ten Thousand)
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Hi Naresh ,
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I made changes to the regional and language (made decimal = ,) of the windows server 2008 R2 Standard but the database still not accepting comma as a decimal point.
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1. Right click on the server name.
2. Click on Facets.
3. Then select Server Configuration Facet.
4. Look for Default Language.
5. Set it to values as given in the below link:- For Ex: 1 for German
This changes the default language for new users. (And I don't think there is a need to restart of SQL Server, but I have not checked.)
To change the default language for an existing user, use ALTER USER.
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Everyone is correct that that regional settings does not affect SQL Server - nor should it, it is a server after all.
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If you develope your own programs, then you have to take care about this by yourself.

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Please note that the format for numbers in South Africa regional settings is incorrect. I discovered this through on of our products that would not work on Server 2012, but works from XP to Windows 7.
Where the decimal was always a point it has now been changed to a comma, which is incorrect and most likely will cause a lot of issues for customers in south africa that use decimal data.
I can already see spatial data breaking where decimals are used and stored with points and not commas.
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It seems that this is development related issue, please try to submit a new post in DEV forum. Thanks.
Thanks
Zero
Respectfully Mr. Xia, it looks like the OP is reporting a localization issue, not a development issue.
For the OP, there's a
well researched post by a South African developer describing that the decimal comma is the correct choice. The work cites University style guides, International conference agreements, and government legislation and regulation.
An excerpt from Mr. MacLean's post, quoting work from EEPublishers:
English-speaking countries (plus China, India and Japan) use the decimal point. There seems to be a general tendency to formally declare its use worldwide and the International Organisation for Standardization, ISO, also tends towards using the decimal point
over the decimal comma. In view
of the South African law, however, the comma shall still be employed in South Africa as “the only recognised decimal indicator for all numbers” [3].
References
[1] DR Hendrikz: South African Units of Length and Area, Department of Lands, Trigonometrical Survey, Special Publication No. 2, 1944.
[2] Measuring Units and National Measuring Standards Act, 1973 (Act No. 76 of 1973), Government Gazette No. 4326, 5 July 1974.
[3] The International Metric System (SI), Guide to the use of the SI in South Africa, The Council of the South African Bureau of Standards, M 33a, 1992
[4] Measurement Units and Measurement Standards Act, 2006 (Act No. 18 of 2006), Government Gazette No. 29752, 28 March 2007.
[5] T Zakiewicz: “Units of Length Measure & Geodetic Standards at the Cape, 1813-1912”, History of Surveying and Land Tenure, Collected Papers,
Vol. 2, The Institute of Professional Land Surveyors & Geomaticians of the Western Cape, May 2004.

How to convert decimal notation to comma notation

Hi Folks,
I have an issue in converting decimal notation to comma notation for France.
I have changed the decimal notation in SU01 from 123.4 to 123,4 but when i run some custom program written by me it is extracting output as 123.4 than 123,4.
So i want to have the output of report to conver all numerical values(from decimal format to comma format) i.e., 123,4 format from the 123.4 format.
Please help me in fixing this issue
Edited by: Nishanth Kumar Reddy Chenchu on Apr 24, 2008 1:16 PM

Hi Nishant,
U can use the statement WRITE TO. This will write the data as per the user settings. When ever user changes his settings like decimal notations then this statement will write the data as per the current settings of the user.
DATA: l_amount1 TYPE wrbtr VALUE '123.45',
l_amount(16) TYPE c.
WRITE:/1 l_amount1.
WRITE l_amount1 TO l_amount.
WRITE:/1 l_amount.
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Experts:
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We are on srm 7 ECS.
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Rgds
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Currently, the form is printed sometimes using user decimal notation and sometimes using plant.
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Hi,
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SET COUNTRY 'US'. ( example taken as US ).
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