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Henrik Bengtsson
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ValueList with an empty DisplayText
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Hello!

Is it possible to add an valuelist item that has an empty string as DisplayText.

I have a column in a database that is of type Integer, and it can be NULL.

Since this field is represented by an Integer in the software, the value will automatically be 0 in the column
that is mapped to this valuelist. The correct approach would then be to show an empty string.

Can this be achieved somehow?

I have seend that " " works as DisplayText, but not "".

Since I am using Filters as well, it would be good to get the option "Blanks" to work as well.

/Henrik

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    Henrik,

    There is no way to do that.  There’s no way to have a DataValue and then override the DisplayText to show nothing.  As Mike Saltzman has pointed out, "You could change the DisplayText to a single space character, or maybe some kind of placeholder like “(Empty)”."  You would have to do something like that.