Thanks for the good words and for your gracious understanding of the documentation’s state. I will admit the writing code is so much more fun than documenting it. As you can see, I use the support forum to compensate for the density of the Documentation tab.
Re-formatting the file size has come up before, and it inspired an MLA improvement some time back. Sifting through the “Field-level option/format values” section of the Documentation tab you will find:
,kbmb(t,k,m) – Some data values, e.g., file size, are better expressed in kilobytes and megabytes. The “kbmb” format provides this conversion. There are three optional arguments; “t” (threshold), “k” (kilobyte suffix) and “m” (megabyte suffix). The threshold argument (default 10240; ten kilobytes) sets the dividing amount between bytes and kilobytes. For example, a value of 1536 bytes would display as “1,536”, not “1.50 KB” and 15360 bytes would display as “15.5 KB”. The “k” and “m” arguments replace the default ” KB” and/or ” MB” suffix displayed following the numeric value.
You should be able to use the kbmb format to get the results you want. Try something like these:
[+file_size,kbmb+]
[+file_size,kbmb( 1024 )+]
[+file_size,kbmb( 10240,'kb', 'mb' )+]
I hope that gives you enough to go on. I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it if you have any problems or further questions regarding the above suggestions. Thanks for your continued interest in the plugin.
That’s great – thanks for getting back to me so quickly – esp when the answer was there in the documentation 😉
What I couldn’t work out was how to get the MLA table display to refresh with the new values – but I couldn’t – using update rule, and map all attachments. I ended up deleting the old field and inserting a new one.
But, I do have a much better idea of how it works now….
Thanks for your update with the good news.
You wrote “I ended up deleting the old field and inserting a new one. ” The “Existing Text” dropdown for the rule controls this behavior. If you select “Replace” rather then “Keep” the new values should replace anything already in the custom field. Also, make sure the “Option” selection is “Text” or “Single” (not “Multi”).
