Nulls VS 0.00 in reports

Post Author: ROMZILBER
CA Forum: WebIntelligence Reporting
Hello
I am new to BO so may be this is a question that can be answered very simple.
We have outer joint on some of the tables. Let say we have policies and payments activities, not all policies have activity. When we ran the report we could not come up with totals, so we have added nvl on all amounts (we are using Oracle), but now report returns 0.00 even if there is no activity for the policy, how can we display null when we display the report.
Thank you

Post Author: jsanzone
CA Forum: WebIntelligence Reporting
Romzilber,
Good show on discovering the use of NVL within your database (I'm assuming that you set this via when building the object in your universe). As you're discovering, certain BI tools handle "things" differently once the data is returned from the database server. It seems that Webfocus knew how to handle the null (as is the case with several other leading BI tools), however, Business Objects didn't seem to do the same, which you discovered through trials and testing. Trial and testing is a good thing, but now you've also learned a lesson of never assuming that the reporting tool is handling everything for you and also that you should be prepared to "fix" those things that it is not handling via alternative means. Good luck moving forward!

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