Display Month when RKF =0

Question

Hi everybody
I'm building a Quality Notifications (QN) Report for the last 12 months that will be run for one Vendor at the time.  I have a Restricted Key Figure [RKF](using an Item Counter RKF pre-built by our company) that is counting how many QN's a supplier have for a given month, and returns the result.  My problem is that if there is no QN for a specific Month, the Month won't appear in my report since my RKF is not returning a "0 value" if nothing happens.  I need a fast way ('cause I want this report to run in less than 20 sec) to force my RKF to display the month, even if no QN's have been raised... Have any sugesstions?
Eric L.

Answer 1

Hi Eric
I was able to do something similar to this and get the month to display even though there was no data for a particular month.  The way you can do it is to create a new restricted key figure in your query, restricting the existing rkf by one month.  If your report lists a rolling year, you can accomplish the results by creating 12 new rkf's in the query restricted on current month, current month-1, current month -2, etc.  If your report lists a full calendar year you can accomplish this by using the variable last month booked of previous year + 1 to give you Jan, last month booked of previous year + 2 to give you Feb, etc.  When you create your new query rkf's, if you use &ZCMTHTX& in the description of each new rkf, when your run the query the correct month name and year will be displayed.