When selecting a dimension based field on a report, you can specify to dispaly units or not as well as the type of units (decimal inches, fractional feet, etc.). It would be nice if this fuctionality was extended to the Product list descriptions. Understandably it's more difficult to do with arbitrary text as opposed to a numberical field, but the text should be able to be parsed into some logical pieces. When drawing and selecting a size, we typeically want to see "spaces" between sizes of a reducing fitting for instance. It makes the dropdown list more readable. On a drawing's BOM, we often want to eliminate all needless characters like spaces and inch marks to preserce drawing real estate. In a CSV report, we may want decimals instead of fractions, and in a printed report, we may want to show the inch mark or ft inches. It would be nice if reports had an option to parse and reformat the product list string or have the product lists have additional data to show multiple forms of formatting.
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