URGENT: Mask on Total value

Question

Hi all,
I have a customer who needs to format the Total value on a classic table to show it with 4 decimal places like this 10,500.0000. In order to achieve such requirement I tried the following code in 'processRequest' method, but no success.
OATableBean tableBean = (OATableBean)webBean.findChildRecursive("AllocationDataTable");
if(tableBean != null) {
tableBean.prepareForRendering(pageContext);
OAMessageStyledTextBean total = (OAMessageStyledTextBean)tableBean.findChildRecursive("UnitLandedCost");
if (total != null) {
oracle.cabo.ui.validate.Formatter formatter = new OADecimalValidater("#,##0.0000;#,##0.0000","#,##0.0000;#,##0.0000");
total.setAttributeValue(ON_SUBMIT_VALIDATER_ATTR, formatter);
Please, can anyone comment what is wrong? Workarounds?
Thanks.
Eduardo

Answer 1

I did manage to solve this. My fields are VARCHAR2 to start with. So in the AM I save the final tota for the column in a view table (SprintTotals) .
Then in the controller, I retrieve the saved total.
OAViewObject voRow = (OAViewObject)am.findViewObject("SprintTotalsVO1");
voRow.setWhereClause(null);
voRow.executeQuery();
Row row1 = voRow.first();
String docs = "";
if(row1 != null )
System.out.println("in calls");
docs = (String) (voRow.getCurrentRow()).getAttribute("*Totalcurchg*");
System.out.println("docs = " + docs);
//The following code handles the formatting
OAMessageStyledTextBean regUSDAmtBean=(OAMessageStyledTextBean)webBean.findIndexedChildRecursive("*Totalcurchg*");
Formatter formatter2 = new OADecimalValidater("$#,##0.00;($#,##0.00)","$#,##0.00;($#,##0.00)");
regUSDAmtBean.setAttributeValue(*ON_SUBMIT_VALIDATER_ATTR*, formatter2);
This line displays the total value for the field. It uses the actual value that is stored in docs
regUSDAmtBean.setAttributeValue(*TABULAR_FUNCTION_VALUE_ATTR, docs* );
This setting allows for the dollar sign in the column data and the total value. This procedure requires that the EO is defined first.
The only problem I have let is right aligning the total value.