Display of 0's in rows with no data in OneStream AND excel Export

sohrabmemar
New Contributor

Hello, 

How Can I have rows that have no data for a time period to display 0 instead of blank in OneStream as well as when exported to Excel. 

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coneill
New Contributor III

Add a column that adds zero to the data column. [Null] + 0 = 0.

 

Cube View [Column 1] has the (sometimes null) data

Cube View [Column 2] = [Column 1] + 0 using a GetDataCell formula

 

coneill
New Contributor III

In case it is not obvious, you can hide [Column 1].

Is there a way to do this without column math? Using column math prevents the drill down functionality. 

 

Cheers!

coneill
New Contributor III

If we don't use the GetDataCell formula in the report, we could use the GetDataCell formula in the account formula.

WARNING: I would never recommend adding zero to static account formula. You will populate many cells of data with zeros!

 

DYNAMIC CALC: But you could add it to a dynamic calculation account. And this solution might make sense for a short list of accounts. But the longer the list of accounts, the higher the 'cost' of this answer. Both in terms of report speed and chart of accounts volume.

I wouldn't  create new account to accomodate this as this would require a lot of maintenance. From what I am understanding is that there is currently no supression setting for this.

 

Thanks for the insight.