[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Setting the currency in the patron billing interface

[Linda Jansova]

Hi Dan,

It really seems there is no easy way in Angular to change default 
currency parameters across the application as mentioned in Angular Wiki 
(https://www.angularjswiki.com/angular/angular-currency-pipe-formatting-currency-in-angular/) 
and further elaborated in a GitHub discussion 
(https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/25461).

However, the Angular Wiki page cited above mentions a workaround (with a 
code example):

"we can define our own custom Angular currency Pipe to do the same.

Create a new file called custom.currencypipe.ts file and add the below 
code to it. You can change the paramters as per your requirements."

If implemented in Evergreen, maybe the currency parameters could be 
changed in a single place?

Linda

On 5/20/19 9:38 PM, Daniel Wells wrote:
> Hello Eva,
>
> The AngularJS interfaces are using the built-in currency filter, which 
> supplies a dollar sign by default.  More here:
>
> https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/filter/currency
>
> It does appear that the filter can specify a different symbol; it is 
> fairly limited otherwise.  The newer Angular looks to be more robust 
> in allowing locale-specific currency formatting options.
>
> If you care mainly about the symbol, you should be able to change that 
> by modifying each place that filter is used, but that doesn't seem 
> very practical.  If that doesn't seem viable for you, we probably need 
> to look at expanding how that filter is processed to allow for better 
> optional behavior.  Tacking on a root variable similar to date 
> formatting doesn't seem too terrible.
>
> Hopefully someone with more direct knowledge will chime in and let us 
> know there is already an easier way.
>
> Sincerely,
> Dan
>
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 3:06 PM Cerninakova Eva <cernin at jabok.cz 
> <mailto:cernin at jabok.cz>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     The Czech Evergreen community hopes that during the summer we will
>     be possible to move our libraries to the web client using
>     Evergreen version 3.3. Therefore, we are currently working on
>     testing and removing potential localization problems.
>
>     Currently, we are dealing with currency setting in the web staff
>     client patron billing interface.
>
>     There was no currency symbol used in the patron billing interface
>     in the XUL staff client.  This has changed with the new web
>     client:  There is the "$" symbol  shown in the patron billing
>     interface for each payment amount. However, we use the Czech
>     currency, and the dollar symbol shown in the interface is quite
>     confusing and does not provide an easy survey of the money summary
>     to staff. Even greater complication is that the dollar symbol is
>     also used on patron payment receipts (see the attachments). We
>     need the currency symbol to be changed (or at least removed).
>
>     From the receipt template
>     (Open-ILS/src/templates/staff/share/print_templates/t_bills_current.tt2),
>     as well as from the billing interface, it is obvious, that a
>     specific currency (particularly USD) is automatically inserted
>     into the receipt or into the billing interface. E.g. "Total owed:
>     {{xact.summary.total_owed | currency}}" is interpreted as
>     something like "Total owed: $1.50". However, unfortunately It is
>     not clear to us, where the USD currency comes from.
>
>     We suppose there should be probably a similar setting for the
>     currency as it is for the date + time format (which is possible to
>     set in the Library settings editor and which occurs in the receipt
>     template as {{xact.xact_start | date:$root.egDateAndTimeFormat}} )???
>
>     Does anyone please have an idea how to set the currency value?
>     (The fact that we can't use our own currency is a real web staff
>     blocker for us )
>
>     Thanks for any hint
>     Eva
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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