I figured out where my problem was, I switched up the arrangement of figures in markedCalc:, I put the dividing value before the markup value as opposed to what i did initially which was bringing it before the markup value and it worked.
*Field('markupCalc', 'integer', compute=lambda r: (float(r['markup'])/100*float(r['unitPrice']))),* On Monday, January 13, 2020 at 6:54:25 PM UTC+2, mostwanted wrote: > > I'm trying to calculate a required percentage value for the entered figure > but i am getting the wrong answer > > Field('unitPrice', 'float', label=SPAN('Unit Price', _style="font-weight: > bold;"), requires=IS_MATCH('[0-9]+', error_message=T('Enter Money in > Proper Figures'))), > Field('markup', 'integer', label=SPAN('Markup', _style="font-weight: > bold;"), requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), > *Field('markupCalc', 'integer', compute=lambda r: > (100.0/float(r['markup'])*float(r['unitPrice']))),* > Field('markedupPrice', 'float', compute=lambda r: round(float(r[ > 'unitPrice'])+r['markupCalc'])), > > On the code above I'm getting the markupCalc field wrong and it affects > the markedUpPrice value. How can i correctly calculate a required > percentage of a given value? > > Mostwanted > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/92634948-0e6c-43a7-bf87-d0ddc8b95f70%40googlegroups.com.