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Hi,
my Query has the Characterisic Country as hierarchy in the Rows and revenue with its Percentage Share %A in the Columns.
I would like to use a Formula to show only countries with certain Percentage Share %A (for example More than 20%).
I know this could be done with Conditions, but for some reason I want to do it with Formula.
so I tried to create the Formula like this:
(%Revenue > 20)* %Revenue ..........
in this Case the query show all %Revenue more than 20% but also the rest of the countries and with value 0.
so my question is how should my Formula look like to just show what I want and eliminate the rest.
thanks in advance for any help

Hi Martin
If the Percentage Share is the only column then you could try using zero suppresion, in the Query Properties on the Rows/Coumns tab, set the Zero suppression to Active, this should stop the zero postings from appearing.
Cheers
Josh

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