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Oracle Discoverer Administrator Administration Guide
10g (9.0.4)

Part Number B10270-01
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Edit Calculation dialog

Use this dialog to edit items and calculated items.

For more information, see:

"What are items?"

"What are calculated items?"

"How to edit calculated items"

For example:

Show

Use these radio buttons to display calculations, functions, and item that you can use to build a calculation. To include items in the calculation, paste them into the Calculation field.

Paste

Use this button to the add the item currently selected in the Show list to the Calculation. The item is copied into the Calculation field.

Name

Use this field to edit the name of the item or calculated item.

Calculation

Use this field to enter the calculation details (for calculation examples, see Oracle Application Server Discoverer Plus User's Guide).

To create a calculation, you one or more of the following methods:

Operator buttons + - x / % ( )

Use these buttons to add operators to the calculation. Operators are copied into the Calculation field.

Note: When you use arithmetic expressions in a calculation, the multiply and divide operators are executed first, regardless of their position in the calculation. If you have more than one operator of the same precedence, they are evaluated from left to right.

For example, the calculation Price - Discount * Quantity is evaluated as Discount*Quantity subtracted from Price. If you use parentheses around the subtraction expression (Price - Discount), the subtraction is executed before the multiplication.

OK

Use this button to validate and save the calculation, as follows:

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