# A way to add an edit mask to an output field?

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/a-way-to-add-an-edit-mask-to-an-output-field/76623>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Mainframe-Integration, ApplinX\
**Created:** [April 28, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/a-way-to-add-an-edit-mask-to-an-output-field/76623 "2008-04-28T07:13:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bob2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bob2](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Bob2)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/a-way-to-add-an-edit-mask-to-an-output-field/76623/1 "2008-04-28T07:13:03Z")

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I have a table where one of the columns is numbers. They are actually dollar values. The customer would like it to display as $123,456 instead of 123456.  
It appears that there is no way to apply an edit mask in ApplinX. Is there a way to do this easily?  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Asaf\_Shak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cdc98d/32.png) [@Asaf\_Shak](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Asaf_Shak)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/a-way-to-add-an-edit-mask-to-an-output-field/76623/2 "2008-04-30T13:42:31Z")

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Hi Bob,

This can be easily achieved by using the gx\_changeControl Table user exit . Here

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/a-way-to-add-an-edit-mask-to-an-output-field/76623/3 "2021-04-02T14:49:24Z")

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