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Calculated Expressions

You can define calculated fields in applet definitions using the UI builder functionality and the calculated expressions supported by Oracle's Offline Client for Life Sciences. An expression can be a literal expression, a function, or a field. Currently, there is no limit to the number of functions that can be nested. It is recommended that you consider the performance or memory limits when building an expression. This topic provides some sample expressions.

While function names are case insensitive, use a mixture of uppercase and lowercase for readability, for example, GetPreferenceChoice. Nonetheless, the function names are converted to uppercase.

Numeric values can be either enclosed in double quotation marks or not. A minus sign (-) must be beside the numeric value.