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This is one of the dumbest things I've run into, but there's no substitute for real-life user experience.

After some investigation, I've found that some people have been entering in the dollar sign in the "Other Amount" field and, predictably, the transaction fails. An easy fix would to change the label so that is says "Other Amount $" instead of simply "Other Amount," but I can't figure out how to do this.

Another note: This is a mutilingual site, so I'm using the change from http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-11433 so that the "Other Amount" field gets translated.

Any ideas? Thanks much...

Thanks, Jason - that wouldn't work, unfortunately.

There's an "Other Amount" checkbox below the dollar amounts which is perfectly fine - one wouldn't want to have the dollar sign there. Where the user would enter the "Other Amount" is where the dollar (or applicable currency) sign should go.

I haven't yet had to work with word replacement, but I would assume any word replacement would replace both strings.

Nice try, though!

I would classify any reason that might case a transaction to fail (no matter how dumb) is pretty important, actually, and I only found out about this one because the client took the time to walk the contributor through it. It happened to be his Mom - this is the sort of case where one would normally never find out about the issue and the contribution would probably just be lost.

Can it be that hard to find out where the text is coming from? Gosh... thanks!

Thank you, Tashodha!

But could you check the link you posted? It doesn't seem to go anywhere - perhaps a typo... thanks!

Here's the patch, you can have a look :

Index: CRM/Price/BAO/Field.php
===================================================================
--- CRM/Price/BAO/Field.php (revision 44692)
+++ CRM/Price/BAO/Field.php (working copy)
@@ -253,7 +253,8 @@
 
     $otherAmount = $qf->get('values');
     $config = CRM_Core_Config::singleton();
-    $qf->assign('currencySymbol', CRM_Core_DAO::getFieldValue('CRM_Financial_DAO_Currency',$config->defaultCurrency,'symbol','name') );
+    $currencySymbol = CRM_Core_DAO::getFieldValue('CRM_Financial_DAO_Currency',$config->defaultCurrency,'symbol','name');
+    $qf->assign('currencySymbol', $currencySymbol);
     // get currency name for price field and option attributes
     $currencyName = $config->defaultCurrency;
 
@@ -286,8 +287,14 @@
 
         $extra = array();
         if (property_exists($qf,'_quickConfig') && $qf->_quickConfig && property_exists($qf,'_contributionAmount') && $qf->_contributionAmount) {
+          foreach($fieldOptions as &$fieldOption) {
+            if ($fieldOption['name'] == 'other_amount') {
+              $fieldOption['label'] = $fieldOption['label'] . '  ' . $currencySymbol;
+            }
+          }

bcobin :

You might wanna use CRM_Core_DAO_Currency instead for 4.2.x

HTH
-Yashodha

Just wanted to bump this topic up. Having same issue of no currency sign next to other amount field. Some have typed a $ sign in and received an error. Obviously we don't want this happening. Any solutions?

Bump.

I just found this thread after getting reports from multiple users, confused about why the website didn't accept their donation. I can only imagine that for each of the three people that contacted me about it in the past month, there are many more who just gave up and never said anything. Seems like a pretty serious issue.

I think Civi core should receive a fix to display the currency symbol before currency fields on donation forms

AND

Civi should also ACCEPT donations entered with the currency symbol. Can't be that hard, right?

I ended up with a temporary workaround using CSS:

#price_3 {
background: transparent url(img/dollar_sign_opt.png) 0 center no-repeat;
padding-left: 14px !important;
}
You would need to identify the field(s) in question and, of course, this will only work if you're using a single currency, but at least it got me through. Hope this helps and good luck!