I have a Completed field in Access that is a number data type. The number in this field is 1 for all records unless the record has a status of "Cancelled". In this case the number is to 0.5.
However, when I input the 0.5 value, Access rounds the number to 0. I tried updating the format to
Format([Table].[Field Name]),"Fixed"), but the values of 0 and 1 continue to show, not 0.5.
How can I get the 0.5 to show in the field?
How can I get the 0.5 to show in the field?
Change the data type of the field from Integer or Long to Double.
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In one of my columns in SSRS, I have the expression as
=ROUND(Fields!Contribution_Margin_.Value,5) & "%"
As you can see I am hardcoding the percent symbol after rounding off the value till decimals. But the issue is that the user wants to see only 2 decimals in the SSRS report and when he export it to excel he want 5 decimals while clicking on that particular cell.
So I went into Text box properties and in the Number section, I rounded off to 2 but it is not happening as I am having the "%" symbol, in the end, so after this also it is giving me till 5 decimals in the report.
Any solution how to make it to 2 decimal places in SSRS.
Don't mix value and display - leave the value as is (instead of turning the Value property into a string with the format hard coded into it, thereby losing precision and type) and use the display properties to show that value in the precision required.
Make the cell value just be the field value: Fields!Contribution_Margin_.Value. This allows it to be exported as a number rather than text.
Set the Format property of the cell to display percentage to two decimal places: p2
When exported to Excel, the full field value will be there and the client can format it to 5 decimal places.
I have a column in which for all the values of column I need the percentage symbol in the end. So what should I put in the expression for this.
Like currently I have in the expression ->
=Fields!Contribution_Margin_.Value
To get this '%' symbol in the end what should I do? All the calculations I have done at the backend so only the symbol is required.
If your column is a decimal number that represents the percentage you can just use the format function to format the number:
=format(Fields!Contribution_Margin_.Value,"0%")
Or if you want to keep the value as a number within the report, you can set the Format number property of wherever it is displayed:
It depends on how the number is stored.
Let's say you have a value that needs to be shown as 12.5%
If the value stored in your dataset is actually 0.125 (this is the correct way) then all you need to do is set the format property of the textbox to p1. The means "format as percentage to 1 decimal place"
If your dataset value is actually 12.5 then you can set the format property to something like
0.0 "%" to show to 1 decimal place or
0.00 "%" to show to two decimal places etc.
Alternatively you could just divide the value by 100 to get back to a "proper" percentage value and use the standard formatting codes as shown in the first example.
If all you need is to add % symbol; just add the % symbol in the same textbox as your placeholder, not in your expression.
In textbox of type number - restrict to number,
with min and max value - restrict from incrementing value,
but I want to disable user to type number, because when user types a number, they could give greater than max value.
This is a question of guiding the user. If there is a max value to the field you could either state that in a label or you choose a number picker with only valid values instead of a free text field where everything can be entered. This is usually cleaner than allowing the user to enter out-of-range values, catching them and then returning an error.
Using the function below to calculate the average of a column with numeric and text values, e.g. 3, 2.6, N/A
AVG(CInt(iif(IsNumeric(Fields!Score.Value)=True,Fields!Score.Value,"0")))
How do I calculate the average of numeric values only i.e. not sum and count text values?
As you probably realised, you are including 0 for each instance where the value is not numeric. So if you have 10 values, and 3 are not numeric you are still dividing the total by 10. I can't test this at the moment but try these options.
Change the "0" to nothing (no quotes).
Work out the average the old fashioned way ! with
SUM(CInt(iif(IsNumeric(Fields!Score.Value)=True,Fields!Score.Value,0))) / SUM(CInt(iif(IsNumeric(Fields!Score.Value)=True,1,0)))
When linking CSV files to MS Access 2007 I get some fields with #NUM!
Why do I get this?
I was thinking that it is probably because I have fields with the following numbers 9999999999 and the data type i use is _long Integer_, but how can I get the actual number?
Is it probably because I have fields with the following numbers 9999999999 the data type i use is long Integer
Yes. The largest positive value that will fit in a Long Integer column is
2,147,483,647
so
9,999,999,999
won't fit. You will either need to change the column type to
Field size: Decimal
Precision: 10
Scale: 0
or store the values as Text.