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Casting FreeFormText to Number

edited Jan 3, 2020 1:16AM in Search / Reporting 3 comments

I've got a saved Customer Search that queries against the System Notes on the Customer Record to get the Old and New values of a field that contains a number. However, when the field was created, it was created as a Free Form Text, and not a number.

I want my list to be able to recognize and sort the result by the values (1,4,23,46), rather than "alphabetically' like it does now (1,23,4,46)
None of the formulas in the formula drop-down menu seem to do what I need.

I've also tried:
CAST({systemnotes.oldvalue} AS INT)

and also:
CONVERT(int, {systemnotes.oldvalue})

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