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sebhm

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Sunday, October 5th 2008, 12:20am

no existing value or 0 ??

Hi,

when i use dataa fonction, the result is 0 even if the data doesn't exist.
What is the difference with the value 0 ??
Why do the fonction not return a NULL value or anything else ?
How can i make this difference ?

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Thursday, October 9th 2008, 5:48pm

no answer ??

even if it is a bad answer ...

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Friday, October 10th 2008, 10:25am

An empty numeric cell has the value 0. That is why zero is returned.

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Friday, October 10th 2008, 4:48pm

Even if the cell is not numeric, the value is 0.

and, i use the SDK PHP, so i don't use Excel. And the value is always 0 ...

Can i know if the value is missing OR if the value exists and is 0 ?

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Friday, October 10th 2008, 5:17pm

I'm not sure how you get a zero for a non-numeric cell. I have a cube that has two measures: sales rep bookings (numeric) and a comment (string). When I display the two measures, the comment is always blank unless a comment has been entered.

When you right click on the element, does it have a checkmark beside "numeric" or "string"?

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Friday, October 10th 2008, 10:56pm

I have only numerics values.
(OK i did'nt make all tests in Excel, i don't have string values)

but how can you know if the value is missing with numerics values ?

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Did anybody meet this problem with PHP ?
(the fonction PHP "palo_dataa" return 0 even if the value doesn't exist.)

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Monday, November 10th 2008, 7:04am

Even i face the same problem in exce. I am not able to distinguish between missing values and zeros in my spreadsheet. Is there a workaround for this.

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Thursday, February 5th 2009, 5:53pm

UP !!

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Sunday, July 26th 2009, 9:28pm

Dear Palo programmers!

Is there any solution of howto mark empty cell of numeric type?

Let us imagine parameter "Days to End of the World" is unspecified, what is shown? ZERO!!! Feel the difference???

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