>>Hi Yossi,
>>
>>OK so it is the OUTER JOUN that is the problem. Make sure your NVL statement always ends up with the same length. For example if the field in question is C(10) you NVL clause would be
>>NVL(something,SPACE(10)) as something
>
>In this case, nvl() returns a numeric field value or 0, so it needs to be nvl(field,0)+0000000.00 (or zeros in whatever format it takes).

Hi Dragan,

I'm dealing with a similar problem, but when I enter the "+000000000.00" in the view designer, the value gets changed to 0.00. Do you have any suggestions? (throw out the VD?)

thanks...J