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ronaldbalza2023
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4 years ago
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Replacing blank values with zero

Hi everyone, having a hard time trying to figuring out this one and appreciated the help! Question: How can I replace the blank/empty rows with zero? I highlighted the empty rows with grey for the m...
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  • AllisonKennedy's avatar
    AllisonKennedy
    4 years ago

    ronaldbalza2023 You're converting the 0s to blanks with the P&L (no blanks) measure. Are you saying you want that back to 0? Can you simply use the P&L measure?

     

    The problem is, that you have a matrix so it will replace ALL rows with zero - how do you specify which rows you want to show or not?

     

    You may be able to work with an IF() statement, but we need to know which columns you're using in that matrix visual please and you could use that context to filter out rows where the total row is blank, otherwise put 0 - is that what you mean?

  • AllisonKennedy's avatar
    AllisonKennedy
    4 years ago

    ronaldbalza2023  Sorry, I was trying with a simplified version of [P&L] but you're right it doesn't work in your measures. 

     

    Try updating the [P&L (No Blanks)] measure and use that in your visual instead:

     

    P&L (No Blanks) =
    VAR _ColSubTotal = CALCULATE([P&L], ALL(DimAccount[Account Type), ALL(DimAccount[Name]))
    VAR _Result =
    IF(_ColSubTotal <> 0, [P&L])
    RETURN _Result
     
    I don't know what table the Account Type and Name are coming from, so you may need to update that part of the measure.
  • AllisonKennedy's avatar
    AllisonKennedy
    4 years ago

    ronaldbalza2023 I thought your [P&L] measure already had the $0 included in it? So the $0 should display if you've got the ColSubtotal part correct....

     

    You could try adding the zero back in: 

     

    P&L (No Blanks) =
    VAR _ColSubTotal = CALCULATE([P&L], ALL(DimAccount[Account Type), ALL(DimAccount[Name]))
    VAR _Result =
    IF(_ColSubTotal <> 0, [P&L]+0)
    RETURN _Result
  • AllisonKennedy's avatar
    AllisonKennedy
    4 years ago

    That's because they are blank for that account type. Do you have a DimAccount table?

     

    Can try replacing the ALL filters with just 

     

    ALL(DimAccount)

  • ronaldbalza2023's avatar
    ronaldbalza2023
    4 years ago

    Hi AllisonKennedy , hooray! after a gruelling nights spending time with this 🙂 Thanks so much for your help. 

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ronaldbalza2023
Continued Contributor
4 years ago

Hi everyone, I wanted to replace the blank values with zero. How can I achieve that? The old trick + 0 seems not working. Here's my measures. Thanks for the help 🙂

P&L = 
(
    CALCULATE (
        SUM ( 'Invoices'[Line Amount FX Calculation] ),
        FILTER (
            'Accounts',
            Accounts[Class] = "Revenue"
                || Accounts[Class] = "Expense"
        ), USERELATIONSHIP( Invoices[Invoice Line ID], 'Tracking Category CONNECTIONS'[ID])
    )
) - [P&L - Credit Notes] + [P&L (Journals)] + 0
P&L - Credit Notes = 
CALCULATE (
    SUM ( 'Credit Notes'[Line Amount Credit Note Calculation FX] ),
    FILTER (
        'Accounts',
        'Accounts'[Class] = "Revenue"
            || Accounts[Class] = "Expense"
    ), USERELATIONSHIP( 'Credit Notes'[Credit Note Line ID], 'Tracking Category CONNECTIONS'[ID])
) + 0
P&L (Journals) = 
CALCULATE (
    0 - ( SUM ( 'Journals'[Net Amount FX] ) ),
    FILTER ( 'Journals', 'Journals'[Split] = "JOURNALS" ),
    FILTER (
        'Accounts',
        'Accounts'[Class] = "Revenue"
            || Accounts[Class] = "Expense"
    ), USERELATIONSHIP( Journals[ID], 'Tracking Category CONNECTIONS'[ID])
) + 0

 

  • TheoC's avatar
    TheoC
    Community Champion
    4 years ago

    Hi ronaldbalza2023,

    The +0 works sometimes but not in all instances where filters are being used in meausres. I'd recommend doing the following:

     

    MeasureName = IF ( [Your Measure] = 0 , 0 , [Your Measure] )

    An example of it in use is:

     

    Hope this helps 🙂

     

    • ronaldbalza2023's avatar
      ronaldbalza2023
      Continued Contributor
      4 years ago

      Hi TheoC , thanks for taking the time on this. It works however, all the columns that has zero values appeared and the totals column on the far right disappeared. How can I removed the columns with zero values and bring back the totals column? I have filtered the values that is not 0. 

       

       

       

       

      • TheoC's avatar
        TheoC
        Community Champion
        4 years ago

        Hi ronaldbalza2023, can you remove the "Calculate" and just leave the IF...

  • TheoC's avatar
    TheoC
    Community Champion
    4 years ago

    Hi ronaldbalza2023,

    I would write the measure as such:

     

    P&L = 
IF (
	(
		CALCULATE (
			SUM ( 'Invoices'[Line Amount FX Calculation] ),
			FILTER (
				'Accounts',
				Accounts[Class] = "Revenue"
					|| Accounts[Class] = "Expense"
			), USERELATIONSHIP( Invoices[Invoice Line ID], 'Tracking Category CONNECTIONS'[ID])
		)
	) - [P&L - Credit Notes] + [P&L (Journals)] ) = 0 , 0 ,
	(
    CALCULATE (
        SUM ( 'Invoices'[Line Amount FX Calculation] ),
        FILTER (
            'Accounts',
            Accounts[Class] = "Revenue"
                || Accounts[Class] = "Expense"
        ), USERELATIONSHIP( Invoices[Invoice Line ID], 'Tracking Category CONNECTIONS'[ID])
    )
) - [P&L - Credit Notes] + [P&L (Journals)] )
  • TheoC's avatar
    TheoC
    Community Champion
    4 years ago

    ronaldbalza2023, just found something that may resolve the issue:

     

    Measure = IF(ISBLANK([P&L]),BLANK(),IF(ISBLANK([P&L]),0,[P&L]))

     

    The issue that may be causing the misunderstanding is that there may be blanks in your outputs that are valid blanks and therefore it's testing to see if a blank exists, if it does, convert to 0, otherwise deliver the output of the measure.  

     

    Hope this helps!