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% Symbol for Document Numbers

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Posted on by JE-29041340-0 392
Hi:
 
In some cases within Business Central I have seen the journal entry /Document No./ field contain the percent symbol, such as in the following example:
 
ACCRUAL 4%
 
What does the symbol represent?
 
Thanks!
 
John
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    IB-29041624-0 1,191 Moderator on at
    In the AL programming language the % sign is used to substitute  strings. 
    So you can define sting like this "This is document no. %1" and define that the %1 value will be replaced by a document number in this example.
     
    You can also do the same in some setup in Business Central f.ex. when you define reminder texts etc.
     
    So when you see this in the system it indicates that there is either a bug or a misconfiguration where a string substitution should happen and for some reason it is failing to get the value to replace the % sign with.
     
     
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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    YUN ZHU 103,282 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at
    Hi, this is mentioned in the documentation below.
     
    But what you see should be standard generated.
    For example, in Adjust Exchange Rates:
     
    Hope this helps as well.
    Thanks.
    ZHU

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