About number of decimal property of an EDT

About number of decimal property of an EDT.

Extended Data Type (EDT) no of decimal property control the following :

When user input manually from a form (or direct table browser), whatever user input will be rounded to the nearest decimal places allowed by no of decimal. E.g. when no of decimal is 2, entering value 4.0179 will result in 4.02. The value 4.02 will be stored in database.

But the property does not control the value that is entered through code. E.g. there is a code that insert a record with value 4.0179, this exact value is stored in the database, up to 12 decimal places for real data type. However when dislayed back in form or table browser, the value will be rounded according to the no of decimal property.

Remember that this propery is not inherited from parent EDT, so that if there is a need to change EDT in many places, chance is that you need to change many EDTs instead of one parent EDTs.