Change Null Display on Apex Reports

Question

Consider this scenario:
You have a report that pulls some information. Some rows have information that is NULL. This a report. It has report columns and not items. Is there anyway to display these Null values as something else, i.e. 'TBD' or 'Blank'??
I was fiddling around with a case statement to make the values null, something like
case
   when c.planned_start_date is NULL then 'TBD'
   end as PlannedStartDateIt does place the 'TBD' there but it puts it in another column titled 'PlannedStartDate'
Not sure why yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi NewApexCoder,
If you want to set a default value for all the columns in your report, simply go to Edit Report Attributes, and set the Show Null Values as parameter to “TBD”.
However, if you only want to set a default value for a specify column in the report, the easiest way is to use NVL.
In your case, since you are working with a Date data type, first you will have to convert it to char, or use DECODE. For example,
select nvl(to_char(c.planned_start_date, 'DD-Mon-YYYY'), 'TBD')  as planned_start_date from …or
select decode(c.planned_start_date, null, 'TBD', c.planned_start_date)  as planned_start_date from …I hope you find this information helpful.
Thanks,
Erick