Problem in crystal report null value

[Priyam Ganguly]

Hello everyone,
I hav been facing a problem since a few days. I'm using crystal report with .net 2005 (.Net framework 2.0). In a report I'm retrieving the values from a database table and showing it. But the problem is that if a certain field is blank in database then it's showing a complete blank white field in the report also. This is what I don't want. For example- suppose there's a field in datbase named EntryDate which is not mandatory. So for a certain row if there's an entry for EntryDate it'll show it in the report otherwise if it's blank or null in database it'll show a user defined string in the report say 'Not Available' or something like that. For this I hav tried playing with the ZeroValueString property of the respective field in the crystal report also but of no avail. How can I solve it. Plz help with some code example.
Regards.

[Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )]

On Sep 24, 10:08 am, Priyam Ganguly wrote:

Hello everyone,
I hav been facing a problem since a few days. I'm using crystal report with .net 2005 (.Net framework 2.0). In a report I'm retrieving the values from a database table and showing it. But the problem is that if a certain field is blank in database then it's showing a complete blank white field in the report also. This is what I don't want. For example- suppose there's a field in datbase named EntryDate which is not mandatory. So for a certain row if there's an entry for EntryDate it'll show it in the report otherwise if it's blank or null in database it'll show a user defined string in the report say 'Not Available' or something like that. For this I hav tried playing with the ZeroValueString property of the respective field in the crystal report also but of no avail. How can I solve it. Plz help with some code example.
Regards.

You have two options, you can either modify the query to return the
value you want instead of null using coalesce:
select coalesce( myColumn, 'N/A') ...

or you can modify how the field is displayed in the screen, you can
create a formula and take care of this in the report designer