Filling blank cells with 0

akki

Hi Team,

I've recently started domo to build reports and I'm trying to fill 0 in below blank cells in one of my reports.

The thing is, in my dataset there's no data for August month for the highlighted rows. I believe that's why I see blank in Domo. Till here it's fine.

Now, I'm trying to display 0 in these blank cells.

Initially, I used the property under General to fill empty cells with 0 value. But, this just fills 0 in the columns where I'm doing calculation as well.

I believe before empty cells are filled with 0 value, empty cells are ignored during calculation phase and hence after that, domo fill all empty cells with value 0.

I tried below formulas for calculated_count, but this also gave me the same result:

case when `count` is null then 0 else SUM(`count`) end

ifnull(count, 0)

coalesce(sum(`count`), 0)

coalesce(length(`count`), 0)

But none of them worked to give 0 in empty cells.

I've gone through multiple posts regarding this.

For example: https://dojo.domo.com/main/discussion/55174/filter-to-show-blank-cells

this suggests to use a case statement to filter out blank cells.

I added a calculated field, with formula: CASE WHEN `count` IS NULL THEN 'Blank' ELSE 'Not Blank' END

After that, I added this field in filters section and when I try to see available options in newly created filter, I see only "Not Blank" coming. I was expecting two values: Blank and Not Blank

Not sure, if there's something that I'm missing out.

Let me know, if any other information needed from my side.

RobSomers

@akki Are your values actually null or just blank? These are two different things. In your case statement for your filter, try the following and see what happens:

case when 'Count' = '' then 'Blank' else 'Not Blank' end

akki

@RobSomers I believe values are blank because for highlighted rows, data does not exist in August month in my dataset.

I tried using case when `count` = '' then 'Blank' else 'Not Blank' end

Even then, I get only one option in Filter (Not Blank)

ST_-Superman-_

Do you actually have a row of data in your dataset for August? With a null or blank value? Or is the issue that there is no data at all for August?

akki

No, there is no row of data in my dataset.

akki

I've prepared a sample data. After importing this sample data, I'm creating a pivot table like this

Here, year_val and month_name are calculated fields.

year_val: YEAR(`date`)

month_name: MONTHNAME(`date`)

Just wanted to know, if I can populate something in blank cells of count column, before I can start any computation on count column.

Sample_data.xlsx

akki

Sorry for the typo. I meant, No there is no row of data in my dataset for August as you'll notice in the sample excel attached in my last comment.

jaeW_at_Onyx

@akki given the nature of pivot tables, you will see a row for outcomes 5 and 4 since they exist for the month of september, but to your point there is no data there.

even if you wrote

coalesce( sum(`value`), 0 )

you wouldn't see a value in August because there literally is no data there.

in order to show a value in August, you need a row in your dataset that includes outcome5 and August. once the data is there, coalesce... will work.

akki

Okay thanks @jaeW_at_Onyx

I was thinking the same, that data needs to be present in dataset so that I can do any computation on it.