Column data formatting in OBIEE ANSWERS

Hi,
I have a requirement of putting '-' whenever column value is NULL. I am doing this ANSWERS. I am doing this by using the below.
IFNULL(CAST("COLUMN NAME" AS CHAR),'-').
It is correctly replacing by '-' whenever data is NULL but it is also overriding default data format as Treat Text As(custom Text Format) if you look at the data format tab in the column properties. So if column has data like 23.1 it is displaying as 23.123456667777.
But I want to overwrite custom text format as number format to show as 23.1.
Please help me on this.
Thanks,
SRK

I have made a solution for you :
http://gerardnico.com/weblog/2009/04/09/how-to-mix-string-and-number-data-type-in-one-column-and-get-a-sum/
Replace the condition by your value is null in the conditional formatting and you are done.
Success
Nico

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