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numeric field

Former Member — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:08:35 GMT

hi friends,

i need to do calculation with Numeric field.

is it possible and how.

my opinion is first i copy numeric to integer field.

then i do calculation again i move result to num field.

is it a correct method?

or any other way is there ,should i do concatenation?

if anyone knows please let me know..

regards,

diana.

Re: numeric field

Former Member — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:11:11 GMT

Hi,

Yes u can convert it into integer and again convert it into numeric.

Re: numeric field

matt — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:11:40 GMT

Confusing... isn't an Integer a numeric field?

Re: numeric field

Former Member — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:12:23 GMT

hi, you can use the function modules , so that u can pass the values and can get the answer in required format.

reward if useful.

Re: numeric field

Former Member — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:12:58 GMT

U can do calculation with Numeric fields also ..

No need to move to char and do calculation ...

Re: numeric field

Former Member — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:17:06 GMT

Hi Diana,

Yes its possible to use Numeric fields for calcluation. But generally it is not recommended to use Numeric fields for heavy calculation. I mean moving Numeric data to Other data variables types and move back and forth the data.

The system will need to do data conversion from one form to another and it is not recommended.

Cheers

Re: numeric field

Former Member — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:33:37 GMT

Hello,

You can do calculation directly. You don't need conversion o something like that.

Amal

Re: numeric field

former_member224404 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:46:22 GMT

Hi Diana,

You can directly do calculation on numeric fields. Therefore no coversion is required.

Thanks,

Mainak