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Oracle Taleo Enterprise Edition: How to Convert a Flex Field (UDF) from String Type to Numeric Type (Doc ID 2135156.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 06, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Taleo Platform Cloud Service - Reporting for OBI - Version 17.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

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Question:

I have a user-defined field (UDF) set up as a numeric-type field, but it's not sorting in numerical order in Reporting?

I have a user-defined field (UDF) set up as a numeric field, but when I use it in a custom formula, I keep receiving the error: ORA-01722: invalid number... or ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected... -- why?

 

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