How do you stop Text fields from auto formatting numbers?

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Steve - 08 May 2007 19:46 GMT

Hi,

How can I stop a text field from automatically formatting user data? For
instance, my main data source has a text field called product number. The
form has a text box with the data type set to "Text (string)".

If a user enters A025600 as the product number everything is fine. However,
if the user enters 025600 it automatically gets converted to 25,600 - which
is not good.

How can I stop InfoPath from automatically formatting the user data?

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Aruna - 09 May 2007 06:35 GMT

Hi Steve,

If you set the data type of text field to “Text (string)” then it will not
truncate the number.
I have a question for you. Are you converting this text field into integer
in code?
I tried your scenario, it is working correctly for me.

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Steve - 09 May 2007 15:32 GMT

Thanks Aruna,

Not sure what was happening or if there could have been a cached form
template or something, but you're right, it's not truncating the number
(string) anymore.

To answer your question, no I'm not coverting it in code.

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