Divide by Zero on Main Page

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Posted on by DCHammer

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So I know what is happening, I just don't know how to fix it.

I have the same problem others have had with setting design layout values that initially throw the error because a value isn't set soon enough at load.

I have a horizontal container that holds a horizontal gallery.

Gallery items are populated with:

Sort(colTabs,ID,SortOrder.Ascending)

colTabs is defined in the OnStart to create the tab values themselves.

The error happens because of this calculation (which is setting template width in the gallery dynamically):

Parent.Width/CountRows(Self.AllItems)

I tried using Coalesce as suggested in another post but that didn't work. Although maybe the problem was in my syntax.

The modified code I tested was:

Parent.Width/Coalesce(CountRows(Self.AllItems),200)

It didn't work though. I still get a divide by zero error which doesn't make sense to me. If CountRows isn't returning a number, then the Template width should use 200 as the denominator and I shouldn't get an error.

Appreciate any guidance provided.

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DCHammer 714 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Re: Divide by Zero on Main Page

Well, it now does EXACTLY what I want it to do. Thank you so much.
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renatopc84_ch 228 on at

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Re: Divide by Zero on Main Page

Hi @DCHammer
I had the same issue with another App that shows Graphs.
I solved it adding the
iferror(Formula,"")

So the formula will be executed and calculated, but in case of error nothing will be shown
DCHammer 714 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Re: Divide by Zero on Main Page

Well, I was successful in transferring the calculation to the OnStart property and then using that variable to set the template size.
It works and the layout is correct but it still throws the divide by zero error at launch. It seems that the app loads the page and tries the generate the html before the OnStart logic completes. But once the code in OnStart finishes the layout adjusts and everything looks right.
I'd just really like to make that error message at the top disappear. If it automatically removed itself as soon as the denominator wasn't zero, I'd just ignore it. But it stays up there.

Maybe I need to try and use Coalesce on this variable now.
DCHammer 714 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Re: Divide by Zero on Main Page

Thank you so much. I might need a day to get around to this but I'll update the post and credit you as soon as I make it work.
renatopc84 44 on at

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Re: Divide by Zero on Main Page

Hi @DCHammer

You have to copy the Code from “items” Property of the Gallery.
On the “App” Page you have the property “On Start” (if you should see it, maybe must be activated in the settings of the App).
There you can add this code:

Set(varNumberRows,CountRows(CodeYouCopiedFromTheGallery))

then you can replace the Self.Allitems with varNumberRows
DCHammer 714 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Re: Divide by Zero on Main Page

Thank you for the suggestion. Now I just have to figure out how to do that. I'll readily admit I'm reusing logic from someone else's app and design that I've just modified. I'm really not a developer and it shows. 🙂
renatopc84_ch 228 on at

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Re: Divide by Zero on Main Page

Hi @DCHammer
You could perform the Countrows in the "OnStart" property of the APP and set it on a variable.
Then use the variable in your galleries. Otherwise every filter and dependencies would change the template size and this could be recognized as a cycle.