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Dean_Gross
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May 11, 2021
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Improving Workbook Behavior

I notice that some of the workbooks display an error , such as Query could not be parsed at ')'.... click to retry. This occurs when an item has not yet been selected. What is the recommended way to ...
  • GaryBushey's avatar
    May 11, 2021

    Dean_Gross If you go to the Advanced Settings tab of the step that will provide the parameter, look at the parameters being exported. When setting up a parameter that gets exported, you can setup a default value as well.  I would recommend setting that to a value that will cause no rows to be returned in your query but will not return an error.

     

    For text values I typically set this to an empty string and for integers I use zero but it will all depend on the query where it the parameter will be used.

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