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Anonymous
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Countrows returns null instead of 0

I have a data like this 

 

Column 1Column 2
null6
null3
nullnull

 

I am counting the occurrences of values greater than 9 in both columns but both columns returns null while in reality the column 1 should return null while the column two should return 0. 

 

var column1 = COUNTROWS ( FILTER ( 'nps', 'nps'[Column 1] IN { 7, 8, 9, 10 } ) )

var column2 = COUNTROWS ( FILTER ( 'nps', 'nps'[Column 2] IN { 7, 8, 9, 10 } ) )

 

I am doing some other calculation at the end as well

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Anonymous
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Is there any way we can ignore the null values in the columns from calculations so that with the rows that have a data with values but returns a null I can force zero it?

tamerj1
Super User
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@Anonymous 
COUNTROWS of an empty table is BLANK not 0

To force zero use

var column2 = COUNTROWS ( FILTER ( 'nps', 'nps'[Column 2] IN { 7, 8, 9, 10 } ) ) + 0

Anonymous
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Genius!
Anonymous
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Won't that automatically use 0 where the column or cell value is actually null and should remain the same? 

@Anonymous 
FILTER ( 'nps', 'nps'[Column 2] IN { 7, 8, 9, 10 } ) returns an empty table. Any aggregation of an empty table in DAX returns a blank not 0

Anonymous
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Is there any way we can ignore the null values in the columns from calculations so that with the rows that have a data with values but returns a null I can force zero it?

@Anonymous 
I aleady answered that in my first reply, just + 0

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