How to use negative numbers in maintenance views

When you create a maintenance view for a dictionary table, by default numeric fields can not hold negative values. Learn how to circumvent this problem.

Zuhal Gunes
Published: 17 Feb 2005

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When you create a maintenance view for a dictionary table, by default numeric fields can not hold negative values. To be able to use negative numbers in a numeric field, the letter 'V' must be added to the end of the default value of the field.

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