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About Number Handling and Percentage-Basis Calculations

Various actions handle negative and decimal numbers as follows:

• Copy Field and Copy Product actions:
  • Negative source records are converted to target records with a value of zero by default. To change this behavior, set the Allow Negatives field user property to TRUE, which transfers the unaltered number.
  • Floating point decimal numbers are truncated to integer values. To change this behavior, set the Decimal Number field user property to TRUE, which transfers the unaltered number.
• Aggregation actions. Both negative and floating point decimal numbers are supported and calculated as such. All negative cases are field zeroed-out when the user enters a value.
• Allocation actions. Negative and floating point decimal numbers are zeroed-out and not supported. Floating point decimals in the SVP quantity fields are truncated such that only the integer portion of the value is taken into consideration. For currency fields, two digits after the decimal point are calculated.

The percentage basis is calculated in each SVP-specific Category list (for example, Category Baseline or Category Target) as the proportion of the record to the total value of records in the referenced list.