Blank vs empty square
Hello everyone,
I encountered these two fields in one of my columns ("blank" vs empty square), which is messing a bit with my formulas. Why is this happening? What's the difference between the two?
Thanks so much!
Best Answer
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@Victoria_G1 I find that if someone put a space or nextline in the source data it may cause it to come through Domo as blank and not null. You can try to do a squash space in your formula and then a case statement that looks for both nulls and single spaces and replaces them with text like:
case
when COLUMN is null then 'Blank'
when COLUMN = ' ' then 'Blank'
else COLUMN
end
Here is the squash whitespace formula found in the formula tile
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@Victoria_G1 "Blank" typically means there is a
null
(i.e. no value). They empty square is most likely an empty string, which is a text value with a length of zero. Can you share a little more about the formula challenges you're experiencing?0 -
@Victoria_G1 I find that if someone put a space or nextline in the source data it may cause it to come through Domo as blank and not null. You can try to do a squash space in your formula and then a case statement that looks for both nulls and single spaces and replaces them with text like:
case
when COLUMN is null then 'Blank'
when COLUMN = ' ' then 'Blank'
else COLUMN
end
Here is the squash whitespace formula found in the formula tile
**If this answer solved your problem be sure to like it and accept it as a solution!
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