I’ve been trying the Numeric Data Types module. I was surprised to find it does not offer a floating point (i.e. non-integer) numeric data type. I would like to use the advanced search form to search for “Value is greater than” or “Value is less than” for non-integer field values.
Have I missed something, or should I open an issue to request this feature?
An issue is already open. It’s a tricky one because everyone wants a slightly different implementation, and options for configuration are limited.
Thanks. I will add some comments to the issue, but also here for reference. I can see people might have different requirements, but perhaps a first step which will satisfy many of them is to support the XML Schema data types of “float” and “double” as these are also ANSI SQL standard datatypes (so should be easy to store in the database efficiently for indexing and search) and are also supported by Solr which some people are using for enhanced searching and facets via modules.
Fixed-point decimal values will clearly require more complex configuration.