# Align use of currency filter

**URL:** <https://community.silverfin.com/t/align-use-of-currency-filter/1978>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** currency\
**Created:** [December 17, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/align-use-of-currency-filter/1978 "2020-12-17T10:55:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![sven](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.silverfin.com/sven/32/1495_2.png) [@sven](https://community.silverfin.com/u/sven)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/align-use-of-currency-filter/1978/1 "2020-12-17T10:55:38Z")

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As most of you know, there is the option to express currency data with these 2 filters:

- [currency](https://developer.silverfin.com/docs/number-filters#currency): expressing the number as you’d expect it to be (eg. 1.500,23 or -1.500,23)
- [currency\_dc](https://developer.silverfin.com/docs/number-filters#currency_dc): expressing a value depending on the chosen format in Advanced on firm level (eg. (1.500,23) or -1.500,23 depending on the chosen option)

As you might’ve noticed, the chosen setting here in the **Advanced** page on firm level:  
 ![Screen Shot 2020-12-17 at 09.21.36](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getsilverfin/original/2X/b/b0e68a80c1889dfad82473b0b59961975926c0e9.png)  
is actually only reflected in all templates that use the `currency_dc` filter.

However, for templates that use the `currency` filter, that actually caused for inconsistencies across templates with the currency filter, and the report templates: the chosen setting would actually be seen in report templates, but not for templates that make use of the `currency` filter.

So, a zero amount might’ve shown `-` in a report, while (liquid) templates would still show `0`. This isn’t very consistent, hence the change now we are going to implement: soon the `currency` filter will also reflect the chosen setting in Liquid templates.

To be clear:

- the change won’t alter any behaviour when using the `currency_dc` filter
- the change only affects templates that use the `currency` filter AND where a different format is chosen for zero and negative in the Advanced page on firm level ☝