&

Command

The & command prefaces a substitution variable in the report script.

Syntax

 &variableName
variableName The name of the substitution variable set on the database. The variable name can be any combination of letters, numbers, and underscores, up to 80 characters in length. Spaces, punctuation, and other special characters are not supported in the variable name.

Description

Any string that begins with a leading & is treated as a substitution variable; Hyperion Essbase replaces these variables with their associated value names prior to the parsing of the report script. If you have member names that contain a leading &, they are recognized as substitution variables.

Example 

<ICHILDREN &CurQtr
becomes 
<ICHILDREN Qtr1
if the substitution variable CurQtr has the value name "Qtr1".


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