Report Builder 2012 - Omit Certain Fields

Question

I'm using SQL Server Report Builder 2012 to make a bar chart from a query I ran off. The table is great but the nature of it causes some problems in Report Builder without some tweaking which I've never used before (new to SQL in fact). Apologies for what
is a difficult question to put into words and in fact took me a while to grasp in my mind.
I've got a table with three date fields in it:
REC_NO OPEN IN_PROGRESS CLOSED
000111 01/01/2000 01/01/2000 01/01/2000
000112 01/01/2000
000113 01/01/2000 01/01/2000
If there's a value in OPEN in all three cases in the above then it will count that three records are open. However, one is CLOSED and one is IN_PROGRESS. In the case above, record 00111 is closed, 000112 is open and 000113 is in progress.
My question is, is there a way to filter the results of a query in Report Builder 2012 so that if a field is populated, not to use the previous in the chart? E.g. if IN_PROGRESS is populated but CLOSED isn't, don't use OPEN.
I know that was probably a very convoluted and difficult explanation but I don't know how else to explain it.
Thanks in advance
Adam

Answer 1

Hi Adam-M,
As per my understanding, there are four fields in the table, three fields’ data type is date. You want to add a field named status, when all the three fields have values, the status is closed, if only Open field has value, the status is open, else, the status
is in_progress. You want to create a bar chart using Report Builder 3.0, the data of status displays on x-axis and count of status displays on y-axis. If so, we can achieve your goal using reporting service. Please refer to the following steps:
1. In the left pane in Report Builder, verify that New Report is selected.
2. In the right pane, click Chart Wizard.
3. On the Choose a dataset page, click Create a dataset, and then select an existing data source or browse to the report server and select a data source, then paste your query into the query pane.
4. On the Choose a chart type page, the column chart is the default chart type. Click Bar, and then click Next.
5. Right click the dataset used to retrieve data and click Add Calculated field, type Status in the field name text box, click the expression (Fx) button, then type the following expression:
=IIf(IsNothing(Fields!CLOSED.Value)=0 and IsNothing(Fields!IN_PROGRESS.Value)=0,"CLOSED",IIF((Fields!CLOSED.Value)IS NOTHING AND ISNOTHING(Fields!IN_PROGRESS.Value)=0,"IN_PROGRESS","OPEN"))
6. Drag Status to the Categories pane.
7. Drag Status to the Values pane. The Values pane displays [Sum(Status)] because the chart displays the aggregate for each status, click the arrow right to the aggregation, click Expression and type the expression:
=Count(Fields!Status.Value)
8. Click Run to preview the report.
For more information about Add a Bar Chart to Your Report (Report Builder), please refer to the following document:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd255225(v=sql.110).aspx
If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know.
Best Regards,
Wendy Fu