diff --git a/plugin/web-ui/addon/src/main/resources/OSGI-INF/web-ui-properties.xml b/plugin/web-ui/addon/src/main/resources/OSGI-INF/web-ui-properties.xml
index 58685a15c0..3b682eee03 100644
--- a/plugin/web-ui/addon/src/main/resources/OSGI-INF/web-ui-properties.xml
+++ b/plugin/web-ui/addon/src/main/resources/OSGI-INF/web-ui-properties.xml
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@
${org.nuxeo.web.ui.numberFormatting.enabled:=}
+
+
+ ${org.nuxeo.web.ui.expressions.eval:=true}
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