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jimmyhaley's avatar
jimmyhaley
Advocate II
11 years ago

Display items with no data?

Hello,   Previously in the Power BI Designer Preview, we were able to display "items with no data", but this feature appears to be missing in the GA release...any idea why that would be?   For in...
RonBuechel's avatar
RonBuechel
New Member
10 years ago

Has this been resolved yet?

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greggyb
Resident Rockstar
10 years ago

If you add 0 to your measure, you will get the behavior you want. Slicers simply filter out those values for which all relevant measures evaluate to blank. Adding 0 makes it not blank.

  • WillT's avatar
    WillT
    Community Admin
    10 years ago
    Hi everyone - you should see the option to show items with no data in the Desktop now! Hope that helps Will
    • jpangburn's avatar
      jpangburn
      New Member
      10 years ago

      Hi Will,

      I'm looking for this option in the "Clustered Column Chart" visualization in the Desktop, but can't find it.  I have dates on the X axis and drilled down to Quarter.  So I see Q1, Q2, Q3 but no Q4 since there is no data for Q4.  I want it to show the empty Q4 and it sounds like this is what you're saying the option is for.  Where is it or did I misunderstand?

       

      EDIT: found this today.  In case anyone else has trouble, suppose you have a date in the Axis box for a visualization.  There's a down arrow next to the X mark that would delete the field, when you click the down arrow you get a menu:

      Remove field

      Show items with no data

      Date

      Date Hierarchy

       

      Selecting that "show items..." one does the job.  If you had a visualization showing quarterly results, but Q1 had no entries, this will put an empty column with the labe "Q1" under it so it is clear that Q1 is zero or empty.

       

      thanks,

      Jesse