IsNothing on aggregation - reporting-services

In the matrix of my report where there is a blank I would like to display a zero.
This is my expression
=Sum(IIF(Fields!CondSubstantive.Value = True , 1, 0))
I've been trying similar things to the below but not having much success
=Sum(IIF(isnothing(Fields!CondSubstantive.Value = True , 1, 0)) , 0, Sum(IIF(Fields!CondSubstantive.Value = True , 1, 0))

Without what datatype your field is an what your expression is intended to do (it looks like a count of non-null values?) then it's hard to give an exact answer, but this might work.
=VAL(Sum(IIF(Fields!CondSubstantive.Value = True , 1, 0)))
This just gets the result of your expression and converts it to a value. Null/Nothing/Blank/Empty String etc will all return a value of 0

I think you are missing a parenthesis and your true value is not right
if you evaluate IsNothing() it will output true if its blank or nothing
but in your code, you are evaluating it reversely
i think the correct way will be something like this
=Sum(IIF (IsNothing(Fields!CondSubstantive.Value) = True, 0, 1))
0 is the value if CondSubtantive is nothing and 1 if there is a value existing for CondSubtantive

Related

IIF statements with Multiple conditions in SSRS Expression

My expression is different than the ones I looked at already. MY code looks like this and I am having a hard time logically reading it. The code works but is part of another larger IIF statement that is used to filter out certain values on a given table column on the report.
I want to be able to "learn" how to read this type of IIF statement as it really does not make sense to me as written.
=IIF(Fields!DMDeptARCFlag.Value=1,
IIF(Fields!CloseFlag.Value=1,"",
IIF(Fields!ARCPaymentRequested.Value=0,"Invalid ARC Payment","")),"")
This expression is called "InvalidPaymentLoaded" and is used in the following expression
=TRIM
(IIF(IsNothing(Reportitems!WTBTIClosure.Value)=0 AND Fields!SrMgmtStatus.Value = 1 AND Fields!DMDeptARCFlag.Value = 1, Reportitems!WTBTIClosure.Value, "") +
IIF(IsNothing(Reportitems!ARCPaymentNotLoaded.Value)=0 AND Fields!DMDeptARCFlag.Value <> 1, Reportitems!ARCPaymentNotLoaded.Value, "") +
IIF(IsNothing(Reportitems!InvalidARCClose.Value) =0, Reportitems!InvalidARCClose.Value , "") +
IIF(IsNothing(Reportitems!BCDPayementNotLoaded.Value)=0, Reportitems!BCDPayementNotLoaded.Value, "") +
IIF(IsNothing(Reportitems!InvalidPaymentLoaded.Value)=0, Reportitems!InvalidPaymentLoaded.Value, "") +
IIF(IsNothing(Reportitems!InvalidMISCClosure.Value)=0, Reportitems!InvalidMISCClosure.Value, "") +
IIF(IsNothing(Reportitems!InvalidMCFClose.Value) =0, Reportitems!InvalidMCFClose.Value , "") +
IIF(IsNothing(Reportitems!InvalidDeductionClose.Value)=0, Reportitems!InvalidDeductionClose.Value, ""))
Your IIF is not that complex if you break it down....
Remember basic syntax for IIF is...
IIF([This is true], [then this], [else this])
So in you expression you have
"If DMDeptARCFlag =1 then do some more work, else return ""
=IIF(
Fields!DMDeptARCFlag.Value=1,
IIF(Fields!CloseFlag.Value=1,"", IIF(Fields!ARCPaymentRequested.Value=0,"Invalid ARC Payment",""))
,"")
If DMDeptARCFlag does equal 1 then we look at the first nested IIF which reads
If CloseFlag = 1 return "", else do some more work
IIF(Fields!CloseFlag.Value=1,"", IIF(Fields!ARCPaymentRequested.Value=0,"Invalid ARC Payment",""))
So if CloseFlag does not equal 1 then we look at the final nested IIF which simple reads
If ARCPaymentRequested = 0 return "Invalid ARC Payment", if not return ""
I think you could simplify the expression though as really you only ever return 1 of 2 values so if you work out all the conditions for returning one value you should be able to get rid of all those nested IIFs
Something like this
=IIF(
Fields!DMDeptARCFlag.Value=1 AND Fields!CloseFlag.Value <> 1 AND Fields!ARCPaymentRequested.Value=0
, "Invalid ARC Payment"
, "")

SSRS Lookupset sum problem when one or more value are nothing

I got a little problem with Lookupset on a SSRS Report.
The report has a father-child structure in the group section and the datasets come from different tabular.
The problem occurs when one of the Product from Dataset1 is missing on Dataset2, the entire sum returns 0.
I tried this VB code in order to sum up all the values the Lookupset is able to return.
Function SumLookup(ByVal items As Object()) As Decimal
If items Is Nothing Then
Return Nothing
End If
Dim suma As Decimal = New Decimal()
suma = 0
For Each item As Object In items
suma += Convert.ToDecimal(item)
Next
Return suma
End Function
I expected the sum of every Product Lookupset is able to retrurn me but it is just returning 0 if one of the Products is missing in Dataset2.
Is there a way to manage the Nothing returned by Lookupset?
Sorry for the formatting and my poor english and thanks in advance!
I would handle this by checking for the value in your LOOKUPSET expression that SumLookup is summing.
I assume that your expression looks something like this:
=CODE.SumLookup(LookupSet(Fields!ProductID.Value,
Fields!ProductID.Value,
Fields!Price.value,
"Dataset2") )
Use an IIF with ISNOTHING to check for the NULL values and set them to zero:
=CODE.SumLookup(LookupSet(Fields!ProductID.Value,
Fields!ProductID.Value,
IIF(ISNOTHING(Fields!Price.value), 0.00, Fields!Price.value),
"Dataset2") )
The function returns a Decimal datatype. By a Decimal datatype Nothing and 0 are the same. You can test this.
Put a tablix into your report with year from 2017 to 2019. Then put the year in a column of the tablix as a number format, then write the following expression in the detail textbox:
=CDec(IIF(CDec(Fields!Year.Value) = 2017, 0, Nothing))
After executing your report you will notice that every value in the year column is 0.
The same goes for the check. Both of these expressions will always return Yes. I basically check for 0 and the second one for for Nothing:
=IIF(CDec(IIF(CDec(Fields!Jahr.Value) = 2017, 0, Nothing)) = 0, "Yes", "No")
=IIF(CDec(IIF(CDec(Fields!Jahr.Value) = 2017, 0, Nothing)) = Nothing, "Yes", "No")
But remember your textbox/column has the be a number format.
So if you want to return Nothing and you display it in a number format textbox, it will show you a 0.

#ERROR Help, SSRS Report Builder, IIF w/ LOOKUPSET

I'm trying to compare 2 rows of data in the form of %'s. I generate and it "#Error".
=IIF(Fields!Grade.Value = "ONGRADE" > LookupSet(Fields!Grade.Value = "ONGRADE", Fields!grade.Value = "ONGRADE", Fields!grade.Value = "ONGRADE", "Previous3Week"), "UP" ,"DOWN")
There are two DataSets.
You are using IIF incorrectly. IIF just looks at a comparison and returns the first value if TRUE and the second value if false.
=IIF(1 = 2, True, False)
Which reads as
If 1 = 2 then return TRUE else return False
You are also using LookUpSet incorrectly. The first LookUpSet argument is your current dataset field that you want to compare, the second argument is the field from the first that you want to compare to - since your using the same dataset, they might be the same. The third LookUpSet argument is the field that you want to return (you know the ONGRADE field, what value do you want back?).
Your expression reads, if Grade = ONGRADE > LookupSet(blah blah) ...
What is the value field that you want to compare? Assuming it's Fields!GRADE_VALUE.Value, your IIF might be like
=IIF(Fields!Grade.Value = "ONGRADE",
IIF(Fields!GRADE_VALUE.Value >
LookupSet(Fields!Grade.Value, Fields!grade.Value, Fields!GRADE_VALUE.Value", "Previous3Week"),
"UP" ,
"DOWN"),
"Not ONGRADE")
If you want all GRADE types (not just ONGRADE) compared, it would be simpler:
=IIF(GRADE_VALUE > LookupSet(Fields!Grade.Value,
Fields!grade.Value,
Fields!GRADE_VALUE.Value,
"Previous3Week")
, "UP"
,"DOWN")

SSRS Iif Evaluates True and False

MSDN states that SSRS will evaluate both the true and false part of an Iif statement regardless of which one is returned. This seems to make Iif completely useless in regard to error avoidance. In other words, you cannot use Iif to skirt around an error, so essentially any operation you choose to include must always be valid regardless of the conditions. Honestly, what good is this?
So my question is... Does SSRS have other ways of evaluating conditions besides Iif?
Here is my example. I just want to be able to return Left without grabbing the first character of the match.
=Iif
(
InStr(Fields!SearchField.Value, Fields!Criteria.Value) <= 1,
"",
Left(Fields!SearchField.Value, InStr(Fields!SearchField.Value, Fields!Criteria.Value)-1)
)
However, what is happening here is that InStr(Fields!Criteria.Value, Fields!Criteria.Value)-1 is evaluating to 0 in some cases, which is perfectly fine until the FALSE part of the statement tries to deduct 1 from it and pass it into the InStr function. InStr cannot accept -1 as the number of characters to return.
An oversimplification of this is as follows. Assume you have a situation where Value can never fall below 0 without throwing an error.
Iif (Value > 0, Value = Value -1, 0)
Trying to use Iif to force the value not to fall below 0 does not work because all of these statements get evaluated even if they do not meet the conditions.
Trying to use InStr to get an index on a match, and Left to build a substring based on that index fails because of this. I have no idea how to completely avoid the condition.
I too thought Switch would work, but upon testing it did not. As far as I can tell, custom code is the only way to go. I tested the function below which worked for my few test cases.
Public Function TruncateWord(ByVal str As String, ByVal criteria As String) As String
If str.Contains(criteria) Then
Return Left(str, InStr(str, criteria) - 1)
Else:
Return ""
End If
End Function
I tested with the below 5 basic strings, searching for "d", and got the following results:
+-----------------+
| String | Result |
+-----------------+
| asdf | as |
| asd | as |
| as | |
| da | |
| ad | a |
+-----------------+
So this appears to work for all 3 possible cases (InStr returns > 1, InStr returns 1, and InStr returns 0) from my limited testing.
Here is the final result from C Black's suggestion to use custom code. I had eventually hoped to use the segment of the string to format the match in a different color in the opposite column. I had to add some html tags. It works perfectly. Thank you all for your assistance.
Code block:
Public Function ParseMatch (ByVal FullString As String, ByVal Criteria As String) As String
Dim Segment(2) As String
Dim Result As String
If FullString.ToUpper.Contains(Criteria.ToUpper)
Segment(0) = Left(FullString, InStr(Ucase(FullString), Ucase(Criteria) )-1 )
Segment(1) = Criteria
Segment(2) = Right(FullString, Len(FullString) - Len(Segment(0)) - Len(Criteria))
Result = Segment(0) & "<b><FONT color=blue>" & Segment(1) & "</FONT></b>" & Segment(2)
Else
Result = FullString
End If
Return Result
End Function
Report cell:
=Code.ParseMatch(Fields!Defendants.Value, Fields!Firm_Client_Name.Value)
If the name is found in the list of defendants, it colors the text blue in that field and bolds it.
Use SWITCH
SWITCH stops evaluating expression as soon as the first True is found. Switch works with pairs (an expression to evaluate and a result if it's true). The final True acts like an else.
=SWITCH
(
InStr(Fields!SearchField.Value, Fields!Criteria.Value) <= 1, "",
True, Left(Fields!SearchField.Value, InStr(Fields!Criteria.Value, Fields!Criteria.Value)-1)
)
I rewrote it for readability:
=Switch
(
InStr(Fields!Defendants.Value, Fields!Firm_Client_Name.Value) = 0, "",
InStr(Fields!Defendants.Value, Fields!Firm_Client_Name.Value) = 1, "",
True, Left(Fields!Defendants.Value, InStr(Fields!Defendants.Value, Fields!Firm_Client_Name.Value)-1)
)
' 0 = Error
' 1 =
' >1 = substring based on criteria
1 and >1 are correct, but I still get the error when the InStr evaluates to 0.
The thing is, I have to tell the Left function -1 or it will return the first letter of the delimiter, which I do not want. Even though the condition of InStr(Fields!Defendants.Value, Fields!Firm_Client_Name.Value) = 0 is true, instead of returning "" for the column, it returns an error. This tells me it is still being evaluated despite it being outside of the specified condition.
If I omit the -1 within the Left function, no error results. Yet I get substring + first letter of delimiter.
I work with sensitive information, so I cannot give specific results of the strings.

Hiding table or assigning temp data based on visibility expression ssrs 2008

I have a table in ssrs 2008. This table has a row visibility expression like:
=IIF(max(Fields!VExpected.Value) <> "", 1, 0) +
IIF(max(Fields!MExpected.Value) <> "", 1, 0) +
IIF(max(Fields!PExpected.Value) <> "", 1, 0) = 3, false, true)
Sometimes the datasource returns no data, or the returned data is not matching with this expression. In this case what I see is that a table with borders and column names but no data on it like:
id Vex Mex Pex
However, I want to show it as
id Vex Mex Pex
- - - -
Or if possible:
id Vex Mex Pex
No Data
Another question is, is there any way to hide the complete table if there is no returning data or any matching data with the expression?
Thanks
You can use CountRows function to determine how many rows your dataset is returning. If it is zero hide the table otherwise show it.
=iif(CountRows("DataSetName")=0,true,false)
Replace DataSetName by the actual name of your dataset.
For not matching expression data you can use the this expression.
=IIF(
max(Fields!VExpected.Value) <> "" AND
max(Fields!MExpected.Value) <> "" AND
max(Fields!PExpected.Value) <> "",False,True
)
The whole expression for matching expression and no rows cases could be something like this:
=Switch(
CountRows("DataSetName")=0,true,
max(Fields!VExpected.Value) = "",true,
max(Fields!MExpected.Value) = "",true,
max(Fields!PExpected.Value) = "",True,
true,False
)
Supposing VM, ME and PE expected values are numeric type I'd use ISNOTHING() function to determine when null values are being returned.
=Switch(
CountRows("DataSetName")=0,true,
ISNOTHING(max(Fields!VExpected.Value)),true,
ISNOTHING(max(Fields!MExpected.Value)),true,
ISNOTHING(max(Fields!PExpected.Value)),True,
true,False
)
Additional you can set a message when no rows are being returned from your dataset. Select the tablix and press F4 to see properties window. Go to NoRowsMessage property and use an expression to say your users there is no data.
="There is no data."
In this cases the tablix will not appear in your report but the message you set will be rendered in the location where the tablix should be.
Let me know if this helps.