Forcing data to appear as row headers

Question

How do I force a list of values from the SR Area to appear listed as row headers even if there's no data for that row? I tried writing a code to pick up the SR# for it and assign a null value in the # of SRs column so that it doesn't get counted in the totals. However, this will defy our business process since the report is required weekly and I can't be creating weekly SR's for the sole purpose of creating "dummy" data to force the row headers to show.

Answer 1

So you actually want to outer join the LOV, to the fact table, or not?
In this case I would advise you the following.
Create one request with the actual data of that week, holding only the LOV values that have data.
For example:
LOV Value 1____10
LOV Value 4____12
LOV Value 6____8
In the second request add all the LOV Types and use no fact but a dummy column, holding the formula: CAST(NULL as INT).
LOV Value 1____NULL
LOV Value 2____NULL
LOV Value 3____NULL
LOV Value 4____NULL
LOV Value 5____NULL
LOV Value 6____NULL
Then use a UNION to combine both requests.
Then you should get the following result:
LOV Value 1____10
LOV Value 1____NULL
LOV Value 2____NULL
LOV Value 3____NULL
LOV Value 4____12
LOV Value 4____NULL
LOV Value 5____NULL
LOV Value 6____8
LOV Value 6____NULL
This is still not what you want because you now need to remove the double records.
You can do this by using the pivot table view, which will result in the following table:
LOV Value 1____10
LOV Value 2____NULL
LOV Value 3____NULL
LOV Value 4____12
LOV Value 5____NULL
LOV Value 6____8
Regards,
Stijn