User Defined field and User defined values.

Question

Curently testing this in the demo database before rolling it out to a customer.
I added a user defined field to my item master data base called Lengthcm of type Amount.
I have created a query:
SELECT u_lengthcm = CASE
                  WHEN $[oitm.blen1unit] = 5 THEN $[oitm.blength1] * 2.54
                  WHEN $[oitm.blen1unit] = 6 THEN $[oitm.blength1] * 2.54 * 12
                  ELSE 0 END
Length unit 5 is inches and length unit 6 is feet.
In Item Maintenance then I create a user defined value for the lengthcm field linked to the query and set to auto-update when the blength1 field changes.
This works perfectly for 1 inch through 9 inches (1" through 9") and fills in the centimeter value. When I put in a value in feet (1', 2'), it does nothing and if I put in any value of 10" or greater gives an error message:
[Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 10.0][SQL Server] Arithmetic overflow error
converting nvarchar to data type numeric. 'Received Alerts' (OAIB).
Checking database structure back end, blen1unit is of type small int, blength1 is numeric of size 19, 6 and so is my lengthcm field.
Edited by: Danielle Ostach on Mar 18, 2011 8:18 PM
Edited by: Danielle Ostach on Mar 18, 2011 8:19 PM
Edited by: Danielle Ostach on Mar 18, 2011 8:20 PM
Edited by: Danielle Ostach on Mar 18, 2011 8:21 PM
Edited by: Danielle Ostach on Mar 18, 2011 8:21 PM

Answer 1

Hi Danielle ,
Try this...
SELECT u_lengthcm = CASE
                  WHEN $[oitm.blen1unit] = 5 THEN (cast(($[oitm.blen1unit]) as decimal(19,6)))  * 2.54
                  WHEN $[oitm.blen1unit] = 6 THEN (cast(($[oitm.blen1unit]) as decimal(19,6)))  * 2.54 * 12
                  ELSE 0 END
Regards,
Sachin