In my SSRS report, I'm trying to display the City and State if the city exists and I'm doing so with this expression
=IIF(Fields!Ship_To_City.Value, Fields!Ship_To_City.Value & "," & Fields!Ship_To_State.Value, "")
the conditional part of it works, but whenever it's supposed to output the City, State, I get #Error. Any reason why?
An IIF conditional goes like this:
=IIF(boolean_condition, value_if_true, value_if_false)
Now, your IIF looks like this:
=IIF(Fields!Ship_To_City.Value, Fields!Ship_To_City.Value & "," & Fields!Ship_To_State.Value, "")
That is, Fields!Ship_To_City.Value is operating as a boolean value in the boolean_condition part but then as a string in the value_if_true part. One of these isn't going to work.
I assume you want to test that the field isn't null before outputing it, so you want to have an actual boolean condition in your IIF like this:
=IIF(Fields!Ship_To_City.Value <> Nothing, Fields!Ship_To_City.Value & "," & Fields!Ship_To_State.Value, "")
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I am trying to create an expression that checks if the condition is not correct just go to the else statement, for an easy example I did the following
=SWITCH(TRUE, "AA", FALSE, "A"/0)
=IIF(TRUE, "AA", "A"/0)
as you may guess the conditions here were set always to print (AA) but the actual result is always (#Error), how to avoid this, I just wanted it to execute if true and ignore the error in the false section.
obviously, my statement is a bit more complicated but in short, that's the situation I am in with the following code
IIF(SPLIT(Parameters!JSON.Value, chr(34) & "Text" & chr(34)).Length > 1, SPLIT(SPLIT(Parameters!JSON.Value,chr(34) & "Text" & chr(34)).GetValue(1),chr(34)).GetValue(1), "")
when there is no value it should print an empty string but it looks like SSRS looks at the true condition and prints #Error regardless of the result of the IIF true or false.
how i can avoid this, or how to check if (#Error) and print something else?
I'm trying to figure out a solution on how to concatenate strings from about 15 different options. Each result comes from a checkbox that is selected based on the state a person has lived in within a certain area.
I know how to turn the checkbox option into a text result. What I'm looking for is how to take these text results, combine them, then ignore null results so there isn't any weird spacing or formatting.
In short, if someone select 3 of the 15 results it would combine the 3 results cleanly and ignore the rest. Example would be: FL, CA, NY
There are, of course, multiple ways that this can be achieved, and since you didn't provide any code or examples of how you are attempting to do this, I will provide two options.
1 - You can concatenate the values using a combination of the & and + operators.
For example, let's say you have 15 checkboxes, all named similarly like chkState01, chkState02 ... through chkState15. And for the simplicity of my sample code, let's assume that when referencing the checkbox control directly in code as chkState01 that it will return either the 2 letter string abbreviation of the State it represents (i.e. NY) if the checkbox was checked, or it will return Null if the checkbox was not checked. With that, you could get your results in 2 ways:
Option A
StateList = (chkState01 + ",") & (chkState02 + ",") & (chkState03 + ",") ....
If those 3 check boxes returned the following values
chkState01 = "NY"
chkState02 = Null
chkState03 = "FL"
Then the result of that concatenation code would be:
NY,FL,
Notice that the string ends with an extra comma (,) and always would since you can't know ahead of time how many of the checkboxes will be checked. You would then need to trim that comma from your list before using it most likely.
Option B
'Create the list with a trailing comma that will need removed
Dim x as Integer
For x = 1 to 15
StateList = StateList & (Me("chkState" & Format(x, "00")) + ",")
Next x
or, you could do:
'Create the list without a trailing comma
Dim x as Integer
For x = 1 to 15
If Not IsNull(Me("chkState" & Format(x, "00"))) Then
If Len(StateList) > 0 Then
StateList = StateList & "," & Me("chkState" & Format(x, "00"))
Else
StateList = Me("chkState" & Format(x, "00"))
End If
End If
Next x
Notice that you can reference a control on a form by "generating" the name of that control as a string and referencing it in the Me("yourcontrolname") format. This is one advantage to naming controls that are similar in a fashion that lends itself to a looping structure like this. The Format command formats the number returned by x as a 2 digit with leading zeros i.e. 1 becomes 01
Further, using & to concatenate two items, where at least one of them is a string, will always result in a string output (Null & "S" = "S"). However, using the + to concatenate two items, where at least one of them is a Null, will always result in Null output (Null + "S" = Null). Hence the checkboxes where the value returns Null does not cause additional commas to be included in the result.
2 - You can write more complicated code to dynamically loop through the checkboxes and build the output list.
More likely, you are going to need to use additional code to determine which checkbox is which state abbreviation and to return the correct string value. Maybe you made the state abbreviation part of the checkbox name i.e. chkState_NY, chkState_FL or maybe you have put the abbreviation in the Tag property of each checkbox.
Let's say you used special control naming chkState_NY, chkState_FL. You could do the following:
Dim ctl as Access.Control
For Each ctl in Me.Controls
If ctl.Name Like "chkState_??" Then
If ctl.Value = True Then
If Len(StateList) > 0 Then
StateList = StateList & "," & Right(ctl.Name,2)
Else
StateList = Right(ctl.Name,2)
End If
End If
End If
Next ctl
In my project I am using dsum to query a table to compare years. But I want to render the field as a year for the comparison.
Public Function GetValue(whatyear) As Long
GetValue = DSum("Modification", "Accounting Totals", "Format([EntryDate],'yyyy') = " & whatyear & " AND [ModType] like *2*")
End Function
I keep getting this error:
Syntax error (missing opeator in query expression
'Format([EntryDate],'yyyy' = 2016 AND [ModType] like *2*"
This is probably an easy one for you VBA Gurus. What do I do?
you need qoutes for the year, and if [ModType] is text, you need qoutes for it as well. in addition, handle null values like this, else if it doesn't find any rows, that will throw another error:
Nz(DSum("Modification", "Accounting Totals", "Format([EntryDate],'yyyy') = '" & whatyear & "' AND [ModType] like '*2*' "), 0)
if [ModType] is a numeric value, then the like operator is not going to work, you need to use another operator such as these: =, >=, <=, BETWEEN
Got it - I had to remove the As Long from the function declaration
If so, you may have zero records and DSum returns Null. Catch that - as O. Gungor showed - with Nz. And get the year as a number:
So:
Public Function GetValue(ByVal whatyear As Integer) As Currency
GetValue = Nz(DSum("Modification", "Accounting Totals", "Year([EntryDate]) = " & whatyear & " AND [ModType] Like '*2*'"), 0)
End Function
In my report, I have to include All Courses info(in the report) which is in parameter(selected value)
I am using this expression in checkbox:
="Course: " & Parameters!Course.Label
But this throws an #Error when I run the report. Any idea where am I going wrong.
Thanks,
Ar
Try this:
="Course: " & Join(Parameters!Year.Label, ",")
If your parameter is multivalue it is necessary to join the labels it returns, if you select multiple values the join() function will return comma separated values.
My situation is
I have a parameter, this is a list, allowing multi values. That mean the first record in the list is 'Select All'
When user select All I need to include in my report all records that match with the list plus those that are blank. (My dataset is returning these)
When user select only 1 or a few I want to include only these records. No those that are blank
My problem:
I have a filter in my dataset that evaluate a parameter in a list, but I need to add a conditional filter to include a blank records when the selection will be "Select All"
I tried to use expression but this doesn't work
Filter expression
Fields!NAME.Value in = Parameters!List.Value !!!!!!!!!!!! Work Fine
But I need to change it like as
If Parameters!List.Value = 'Select All' Then
Fields!NAME.Value in = Parameters!List.Value or Fields!NAME.Value = " "
Else
Fields!NAME.Value in = Parameters!List.Value
End
Can you give an advice who can I resolve it please !!!
I'm working in SSRS R2
Thanks!!
This worked for me
Expression: =IIF(Parameters!pLocation.Value <> " All Locations", Fields!LOCATION.Value, FALSE)
Operator: =
Value: =IIF(Parameters!pLocation.Value <> " All Locations", Parameters!pLocation.Value, FALSE)
If you use Filter on your Dataset, try this:
Expression: [NAME]
Operator: IN
Value (fx): =Split(Replace(Join(Parameters!List.Value, ","), "Select All", " "), ",")
Try to work along this path. Basically you can reconstruct the multi value items into a string with Join(), and deconstruct it again into array by using Split(); where in between, you can manipulate them, for modifying (e.g. converting "Select All" into " "), adding (imitating "OR"), or removing extra items.
There is an alternative for this.
Add one more item to the paramater dataset values say "Not Available" as Label and value with the null. then there will be no change in the stored procedure and you can retrieve the data.
If the user select the specific item then he will get those values only. If he selects all then he will get the data for the null also with the all the others.
Hope this will help
You can put the logic in just one location if you do it this way.
You filter on the parameter, unless it's all values then the filter always matches.
Just a little cleaner.
Expression: =IIF(Parameters!pLocation.Value <> " All Locations", Fields!LOCATION.Value, " All Locations")
Operator: =
Value: =Parameters!pLocation.Value