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mantilla.mariana
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Aug 03, 2017
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Data Model Pivot is counting blanks as 1

I have countif formula, that generates a 1 when one date is greater than another. However, in my data model pivot table it is counting all the blank values as well.   Any way around this?
  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    Aug 04, 2017

    Hi,

     

    As i understood you use formula like

    =IF(date1>date2,1,"")

    and count this field in pivot table. Yes, it will count everything includes "". You may apply same field as a filter to pivot table and unfilter empty values to receive correct result.

     

    Alternatively you may use formula

    =--(date1>date2)

    which returns 1 or 0, apply to these cells custom format

    0;0;;@

    to make zeroes invisible, refresh pivot table (to shift from text field type to numeric) and use Sum instead of Count.

     

    Something like this.