This is my mantra today, as I work on group work (I get why it’s important, and I like all the people in my group, and it’s fun to meet and figure things out, but I still don’t care for group work… IYKYK) with a database platform that does not allow you to build a submission form using currency values… even though you can build a *data table* with fields that use the data type “currency.”
Thanks to date night on the couch with my husband and a couple of laptops (sexy!), I got something to work — for the purpose of demonstration only. I had to find some javascript, and figure out how to plug it in, in order to use it… it feels kludgy, but it provides some validation that wouldn’t exist otherwise.
(Note to self: learn javascript.)
I’m sure there’s a reason for this, but whatever it is is likely over my head and above my pay grade.
It (mostly) feels good to flex my (not all that impressive, but existing) data muscles again, even if it’s for a class about designing information retrieval systems.
Carmen Yount 