XL3GridMember

Returns the member uniquename for the specified grid cell. This can be useful for when you want to get the unique name of a particular member from a grid for passing as an XL3Link parameter or to use in other formulae (VLOOKUP, XL3Lookup etc.) - avoiding any issues with duplicate/translated captions etc.

Syntax

XL3GridMember( )

Parameters

The parameters can take one of two forms:

Parameter	Description
Grid cell location	Shows member uniquename for grid cell

or

Parameter	Description
Grid name	Name of the grid to get the member for
Axis	1 for Columns, 2 for Rows
Dimension	Hierarchy on the axis to look at, 1-based.
Member Index	Member index to look at, 1-based.

Examples

Form 1

Used in conjunction with XL3Link, the following formula copies the unique name from the row when the report user clicks on "..." into the cell $A$14:

  =XL3Link(XL3Address($D$7),"...",,XL3Address($A$14),XL3GridMember(A7))

Form 2

The second structure provides a more dynamic way to address the members that appear on the grid, for example:

Return the first member from the first hierarchy on columns:

   =XL3GridMember("My Grid",1,1,1)

In the above example this is: [Geography].[Geography].[All Geographies]

Return the nth member from the first hierarchy on rows:

   =XL3GridMember("My Grid",2,1,nth)

You would only need to consider the hierarchy number if the Axis has cross-joined hierarchies.

See Also

• Formula Reference