Counting if not null

• Brad Allison

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  May 19, 2017 at 6:01 am

  #342929

  I have a report with a dataset that is returning records for ALL clients that have been served based on a start date and end date.  It also returns the result of a question and subsequent formula for most, but not all (I did a left outer join), so some of the values in this field could be NULL.  I hope what I need to do is very simple, but how would I do an expression for a textbox to display a count of those clients served that are NOT NULL?  This would be a count of those clients who have that question answered.  We are trying to actually determine a percentage of those total served / the number of those who did answer that question and get a ratio.

  Thanks for the information

• Thom A

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  May 19, 2017 at 6:20 am

  #1943278

  If they do contain NULLs then perhaps:
  =COUNT(Fields![Your Nullable Column].Value, "[Your dataset Name]")

  Thom~

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• Brad Allison

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  May 19, 2017 at 6:34 am

  #1943280

  Yep, I don't know why I didn't think this way (feel stupid sometimes), but NULL values are not counted anyway so yes, thank you!  Things are good.