How do you get currency to play?

[VaunMcCarthy]

I've tried a bunch of things with ToCurrency and MakeCurrency but cannot get this to work.

What I've got is collecting a payment amount from a caller that they enter, including the cents, ie $125.50 would be entered as 12550. I need to then create a string that's decimalised that so 125.50. But I also want to play that out to the caller as $125.50 specifically. No matter what I do I cannot get that currency piece to work.

Can someone please help me out here as it seems like it should be obvious but I've obviously missed something.

[Jason_Mathison]

Hi Vaun,

It might help if you include an export of your flow so that others can see exactly what you are trying to do.

--Jason

[VaunMcCarthy]

Hi Jason the issue seems to be specifically around how I use quotes. One of the currency functions looks to require quotes passed in, but I need to include a variable in there. If I put the variable between quote marks then the variable name, not the contents will be passed through and it fails.

[Jason_Mathison]

Which currency function are you trying to use?

You might be able to build an expression like this to get quotes around a variable value:
"\"" + Call.Ani + "\""

[anon99530797]

Hi Vaun,

So there are three steps you want to accomplish here. The first step is putting the decimal place into your string. The second step is converting that string to a Decimal. The third step is converting that string to a currency.

For the first step (putting in the period into the string), you could do this:

Append(Left(Flow.userInput, Length(Flow.userInput) - 2), ".", Right(Flow.userInput, 2))

You could use this expression inside of an Update Data action. For accomplishing the second step, you could create a Decimal variable and use this expression as the value to assign, and the string value created by that expression will be automatically converted to a Decimal.

For the third step (converting to a currency):

MakeCurrency(Flow.userInput, "USD")

You can put that into a new currency variable using an Update Data action, or just put it directly into a Play Audio action's Expression sequence item.

If you wanted to do this all in one step, you could use this:

MakeCurrency(
   ToDecimal(
      Append(
         Left(Flow.userInput, Length(Flow.userInput) - 2),
         ".",
         Right(Flow.userInput, 2)
      )
  ),
   "USD"
)

You can put that into a new Currency variable using an Update Data action, or just put it directly into a Play Audio action's Expression sequence item.