Electronic Reporting - List is empty at 'model/CustomerTransaction/Settlement'

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I'm working on configuring a formula in Electronic Reporting and need some help. Specifically, I want to modify the formula so that if a value is empty, it displays as blank instead of causing an error.

Currently, the formula in Cell<Prepayments_Date_Value> = model.CustomerTransaction.Settlement.OffsetTransDate is set as:

model.CustomerTransaction.Settlement.OffsetTransDate

The issue I'm facing is that if a Free Text invoice is not settled, users are unable to view invoices due to the following error:

"Evaluating binding of format component Folder/Free text invoice/Invoice/Totals/Prepayments/Prepayments_Date_Value."

"Evaluating expression for path 'model/CustomerTransaction/Settlement/OffsetTransDate'. List is empty at 'model/CustomerTransaction/Settlement'"

I've attempted a few solutions, but none have worked. Can anyone suggest a formula that would handle empty values properly and prevent this error?

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Adis 6,048 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi,

This is the formula you need to apply on "Enabled" in the marked ranged:

NOT

(

ISEMPTY(model.CustomerTransaction.Settlement)

)

Keep in mind that if the Settlement (Record List) is empty, the whole range, i.e. all excel cells under this range will be deleted

so that the below cells will move up. I guess this is okay, if not, then the enabled logic needs to be wrapped in an IF formula in the cells below.

To explain the error message:

"Evaluating binding of format component Folder/Free text invoice/Invoice/Totals/Prepayments/Prepayments_Date_Value." (see 1)

ER tries to evaluate the code in the "Enabled" field for this cell (see 1)

However, it cannot do this because the list model.CustomerTransaction.Settlement (List) is empty (see 2), hence, there is no data to evaluate thats why you get this error message:

"Evaluating expression for path 'model/CustomerTransaction/Settlement/OffsetTransDate'. List is empty at 'model/CustomerTransaction/Settlement'"

The same scenario you have under Totals\Totals_HeaderNoteLine, but in this case the MS configuration has check on the range level (see 1)

There are also checks for the ranges under (2), depending on the data type, as the checks need to be different for a string, date field or a list.

Kind regards, Adis

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Alireza Eshaghzadeh 14,672 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi,
When working with ER, you need to consider both model mapping and the format designer. In this case, the model mapping uses the CustSettlement table for mapping. This means it can be empty if there are no records in this table, which explains the error message you received.

I recommend following this post by Microsoft to gain a better understanding of how to troubleshoot such issues when dealing with Record or Record list:
Inspect the configured ER component to prevent runtime issues - Finance & Operations | Dynamics 365 | Microsoft Learn

You can evaluate to use AllItemsQuery for CustSettlement and creating a custom node and map to Customer settlement(Settlement) = CustInvoiceJour.'<Relations'.'$CustomerTransaction'.'$CustSettlement'

$CustSettlement = ALLITEMSQUERY(CustInvoiceJour.'<Relations'.'$CustomerTransaction'.'<Relations'.CustSettlement)
while it can be several approach to avoid empty list.
ALLITEMSQUERY ER function - Finance & Operations | Dynamics 365 | Microsoft Learn

Another approach to fix this issue is using the format designer in Excel. On the Prepayment node, Microsoft has already added logic to enable the node with the condition AND(COUNT(model.CustomerTransaction.Settlement)>0, model.CustomerTransaction.SettleAmountCur<>0). This means that the node will be enabled if there are transactions in the Settlement and the amount is not zero, which should be sufficient.

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Hi Adis,

I tried adding the formula to the Range <Prepayments>?, however I still get the exact same error.

I also tried adding the formula here, but I still received the same error unfortunately:

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Adis 6,048 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hey,

I would suggest to try the following:

In your screenshot (1), the range is not bound, whereas in my screenshot (2) the range is bound to "model.CustomerTransaction.Settlement"

If that doesnt work, then please replace my formula in the "Enabled" field with the one suggested from Alireza.

Kind regards, Adis

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