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Hi, I have a Matrix style heatmap where I have 10 categories and 44 total subcategories. My problem is that some of the subcategories have no data and they are not showing up in my heatmap.
I really need them to as that is the point of the heatmap - Showing the items that are blank versus those that have a high number
Looking online the suggested fix of ticking "show items with no data" doesn't solve my issue.
I have added a ranking to all the categories hoping that would help but it hasn't.
Is there something I am missing to make the items show up?
To report on things that are not there you need to use disconnected tables and/or crossjoins
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Hi, data is somewhat like this within the matrix.
The underlying data has rows of data that account for the 'count column' and then there is a lookup that provides the category and sub category and Rank to create the matrix view
| Rank | Category | Subcategory | Count of coverage items | |||
| 1 | Category 1 | Subcategory 1 | ||||
| 1 | Subcategory 2 | 12 | ||||
| 1 | Subcategory 3 | |||||
| 1 | Subcategory 4 | |||||
| 1 | Subcategory 5 | |||||
| 2 | Category 2 | Subcategory 6 | ||||
| 2 | Subcategory 7 | 135 | ||||
| 2 | Subcategory 8 | |||||
| 2 | Subcategory 9 | |||||
| 2 | Subcategory 10 | 39 | ||||
| 3 | Category 3 | Subcategory 11 | 816 | |||
| 3 | Subcategory 12 | 314 | ||||
| 3 | Subcategory 13 | 34 | ||||
| 3 | Subcategory 14 | 63 | ||||
| 3 | Subcategory 15 | |||||
| 4 | Category 4 | Subcategory 16 | 44 | |||
| 4 | Subcategory 17 | 28 | ||||
| 4 | Subcategory 18 | 788 | ||||
| 4 | Subcategory 19 | 17 | ||||
| 5 | Category 5 | Subcategory 20 | 56 | |||
| 5 | Subcategory 21 | 634 | ||||
| 5 | Subcategory 22 | 13 | ||||
| 5 | Subcategory 23 | |||||
| 6 | Category 6 | Subcategory 24 | 17 | |||
| 6 | Subcategory 25 | |||||
| 6 | Subcategory 26 | 3 | ||||
| 6 | Subcategory 27 | |||||
| 6 | Subcategory 28 | 3 | ||||
| 6 | Subcategory 29 | 447 | ||||
| 7 | Category 7 | Subcategory 30 | ||||
| 7 | Subcategory 31 | 99 | ||||
| 7 | Subcategory 32 | 29 | ||||
| 8 | Category 8 | Subcategory 33 | 118 | |||
| 8 | Subcategory 34 | 454 | ||||
| 8 | Subcategory 35 | |||||
| 8 | Subcategory 36 | 43 | ||||
| 9 | Category 9 | Subcategory 37 | ||||
| 9 | Subcategory 38 | 596 | ||||
| 9 | Subcategory 39 | 78 | ||||
| 9 | Subcategory 40 | 4359 | ||||
| 10 | Category 10 | Subcategory 41 | ||||
| 10 | Subcategory 42 | 2 | ||||
| 10 | Subcategory 43 | 2 | ||||
| 10 | Subcategory 44 | 10 |
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