Showing zero on a line graph using DimDate

[ld17]

I'm trying to create a line graph that shows incident trends by month over the last four years. I have a "year" column , a "month" column, and an "incident" column, but for some months, there is no data, so when I try to put this data into a line graph, I want it to show zero, but it just shows nothing. One solution said to create a DimDate table, so I did this and created a relationship between the DimDate date and my original date, but it still does not plot zero. Any ideas where I might be doing wrong?

[Anonymous]

Hi @ld17 ,

Try adding "+0" in your measure or column.

For example,

when there's no "+0".

When creating a measure to add "+0".

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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[ld17 · Accepted solution]

Thank you for this! I had seen a similar solution posted elsewhere, but I had some confusion with which measure I was adding zero to since I don't have any measures already applied to this particular graph.

The solution that ended up working for me was to create a DimDate table and follow the steps and add the code from this site. One change I had to make was to use Date.EndofMonth instead of Date.EndofYear, because I only wanted it to count this year's data up to this month since the remaining months in this year haven't happened yet.

Then I had to create a relationship between the date column in my original table and the date column in the DimDate table. Then I added the following DAX expression to my new table: 

COUNT OF INCIDENTS = 

VAR _INCIDENTS = COUNT ('Table name'[Column name]) 

RETURN 

IF (ISBLANK(_INCIDENTS),0,_INCIDENTS)

[Anonymous]

Hi @ld17 ,

Since you didn't have a measure, are you putting a column or a calculated column?

Then you can create a measure, use the SUM function to get the sum of the fields you want, and then add 0.

For example,

Measure = SUM('Table'[ColumnNmae]) + 0

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[ld17]

Here is a screenshot of what is happening to my data: