Any of you who konws what the AutoFormatType 10 is supposed to do?
Function 12 (AutoFormatTranslate) in codeunit 1 has the folowing code line:
10: EXIT(’<Custom,’ + AutoFormatExpr + ‘>’);
What is the purpose of it?
The description of the AutoFormatType only mentions values 0, 1, 2.
Never saw that one, and I guess that the real question here is what does the <Custom,x> formatting option mean?
Checking the FIN.STX I saw that besides the normal options (Standard Format, Filler, 1000Character, Comma, Overflow, Filler Character and Precision) then Custom is also listed here.
I tried using it in a report and just got an error. So either there is some good explanation like an unsupported feature (which I would to hear more about) or it’s just a remain of something they once planned to implement but forgot all about (like the other remains you can find in FIN.STX like C/DART and C/PLEX).
Read my lips, Erik.
Well, nobody seems to know, so I have entered a Service Request at MS. Let’s see what we get from there.
And the answer is (in my own wording):
Apparently some special formatting, however not used throughout the whole application and might have been something special once. So ignore it.
So just a confirmation of what I and Erik expected and I suggested MS to get rid of it.
Apparently it is of use now in NAV 2015: read the msdn help topic Formatting the Data in a Field.
Thank you for following up on this! [:)]
You’re welcome, Erik.
Actually I was searching the Internet in the AutoFormatType and bumped onto this post again … 
I know Luc, I always does the same, if I bump into one of my old posts with a new problem… [:)]
What many members forget, when they ask a question, is that their question/answers help a lot of other members. Maybe not today, but many years later. Like this question. One of the reasons why typically only questions older than 5 years are locked.
RML