Missing field formatting

Question

I am having some trouble getting around missing fields in my report designing.

Many of the users on the database have a missing Address Line 2.

The report is being rendered using list items like this:

Name

Address 1

Address 2

Town

Postcode

So if Add2 is missing it appears like so:

Name

Address1

Town

Postcode

Is this possible using lists within Report Builder 3?

See attached image.

Answer 1

My recommendation would be to use row visibility to hide rows where the corresponding field is empty or missing. I don't know whether your data has "" or NULL behind the scenes so this is generic advice.

Here is a great set of examples of the types of formulae you can use: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157328.aspx

If the field is NULL you can use the is nothing evaluator like =(Fields!Sales.Value is NOTHING) to return a TRUE or FALSE, alternatively you can do a check of the string length using the function LEN() to see how long it is and if it is 0, hide the row.