Why is "Suppress Zero-Values" failing?

[#1]

Hi,

I have problems to show clients that dont have any invoices in a Pivot/straight Table chart. Under the Presentation tab, I have unchecked "Suppress Zero-Values" (have also tried all possible combinations of the settings), but without success.

I have been able to recreate the problem in the small attached document. My simple data model looks like this:

I want to display the clientName as a dimension and sum all the sales for that client:

My problem is that I have a client C that doesn't show up.

I added the amount on invoiceLine level as a test during the troubleshooting and to my suprise;  Client C appears!

Why this behavior? Is it because the Amount column "is to far away" from the client?

To test that, I merged invoiceLines and invoiceAccounts with a LEFT JOIN:

=Sum(Amount) works now and Client C is visible?

I need to know (I'm curious) why this behaviour. In my real document, the model is more complex and I hope that I dont have to merge the two tables. But if that is the only solution.....

Best Regards,

John

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

in dimenesion tab select " supress when value is null" option

hope this helps

[flipside]

Try checking Show All Values for your dimension. Suppress nulls will remove the missing dimension values too.

flipside

[#4]

Wow. 3 answer the same minute that solved my problem
I cant give you all guys points

Any idea why the behaviour changed after the left join?