Numer format TVs in Revo? Used to express dollar amounts or phone numbers?

I’m playing around with Template Variables in Revo, and the "Number" TV is interesting: http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Template+Variable+Input+Types

I’ve updated the docs a bit, but I’m wondering if there’s a way to format the values entered here so they work for dollar amounts. In other words, I’d like to limit the input to be only 2 digits after the decimal point.

Related question: is the input limited according to the locale of the site? E.g. in Europe, we’d use the comma instead of the decimal point and vice versa -- what system setting affects this? And does it affect the behavior of the Number TVs?

Would it make sense to allow BOTH decimal points and commas so you could have numbers like "1,000.23"? Or would that defeat the purpose? I’m not sure if the purpose here is to allow general numeric input, or if it’s to filter input so the result can be used in mathematical calculations.

Another question: should this be used for phone numbers? Currently, only one minus sign is allowed.

I would type it in without decimals (but all in cents, for example) and use a custom output filter to present it in the way you want to present it...

Input limiting for TVs is not yet supported, but will be in 2.1 via the new TV Input Options ability.

Thanks. And what about the comma/period thing? Does that obey a system setting for locale?

Probably, though that’d be something excellent to file in the bugtracker: http://bugs.modx.com/

I didn’t see any system settings related to this, so I filed 2 improvement requests:

http://bugs.modx.com/issues/3861
http://bugs.modx.com/issues/3863

As well as a bug:

http://bugs.modx.com/issues/3862

Hope that wasn’t overkill.

It’s never overkill to file bugs or issues.

If it’s too many, or duplicates, we’ll just close them. I (and the rest of the core team) definitely appreciate *more* in the pipes rather than less.

To be honest, I think most things should go in the bugtracker. Discussions can be held there, and it’s archivable. Too many issues get lost in ’discussion’ in the forums.