Support "," character in Number variable values

I need this as well. Trying to do a number variable for price and once the value exceeds 999… well, you know.

Thanks for the feedback!

We’ll pass this onto our team for consideration and use the Votes to gauge overall interest from the community.

I don’t really see this as a feature request, though, as it’s an integral part of how numbers are displayed. Much like having punctuation or capital letters in writing; it should be natively part of it.

Thanks for the additional feedback, @IraX!

For further clarity and transparency, anything that the team knows isn’t the current expected behavior is internally referred to as a feature request, because a change needs to be made on our end. This is opposed to a bug, which is not our team’s expected behavior that needs to be fixed.

+1 on this — it’s critical for prototyping and usability testing for us. We deal in loyalty points balances into the millions. Not being able to style with commas for readability is currently limiting.

This would be really great as a format option similar to, shudder, Excel — my initial thought was it would be great to set it as a style at the element level, but that’s probably unnecessary for most text elements, so it could be best at the variable level. Either on the number variable or if we could create pseudo-string variables mapped to the number variable and apply a number format that way.

Agree with this 1,000,000% 😁

Beyond comma separation, it’d be great to have more Excel-like number formatting options in general. Something like Google Sheets’ time formatting options would let us calculate dates dynamically in prototypes as well as use the same value to show full dates in some part of the interface and abbreviations in another.

I personally would want the ability to set a default display format at the variable-table level (“Format” could be a property unique to number variables) as well as have the ability to override those formats on the canvas (via styles?)

(e.g. I enter a value of “61.23” for a number variable, set that variable’s default number format to display it “61.23%”, then have a style override that lets me display the value as “0.6123” in a specific page template)

The number variable is a great feature, but not useful when you are building a prototype for the European market.

In Europe, we use ‘,’ instead of ‘.’
Example: 44,99 euro instead of 44.99 euro
And currently, number variables do not accept ‘,’

I would love to use number variables to build interactive prototypes with dynamic values but haven’t been able to so far for this reason.

Hi @Kim_G, Thanks for sharing your thoughts about number variable! I understand how it would be handy for you.
I found the other community member asking for something similar here. So I merged your post to have all the feedback in one place!
Feel free to vote here!

Thanks,

Having comma or any kind of number formatting support feels pretty critical in order for number variables to be useful. I landed here in this thread because I am having the exact same issue as many in this thread…I am using numbers in my design that are routinely 6 digits. The design has comma formatting, like 832,167, but I can’t wire these into number variables because the number variable will turn it into 832167.

One way of addressing could be a “number formatting style” in the text box paramters, similar to how auto-truncation with ellipsis works. If number formatting is turned on, you select a localization format, e.g. en-US, en-UK, de-DE, etc., and then it attempts to parse the value of the text box as a number and format accordingly.

I’m having the same difficulty. This is making it impossible to use Figma for usability testing with prototyping, especially for financial products. Is there a deadline for correcting this technical debt?