FR Change text value based on another member

Question

Hi,
I using FR 11.1.1.3
I'm trying to change the value of a data cell based on the value of the time dimension, so below is what I'm trying to do
Change value to Quarter1 - 2012 if current point of view for time2 is Quarter1 and Current Year is 2012
Change value to Quarter2 - Current Year if current point of view for time is Quarter2
and so on
Quarter1 and Current Year are coming from different dimensions.
Please let me know if this is possible to do in FR
I can easily do this in IR.
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi VS
No problem it is always a bit open to interpretation when someone posts in these forums :-)
So it sounds like you want to use Text based headings rather than data. Have you looked at the text functions rather than tring to do this with formulas. i think you might have more success using text rows and referencing the rows containing the member names, e.g. if you have two dimensions Period and Year (both in rows) then make use of the following function:
Generic syntax:
<<MemberName("GridName", Row/Col/Page, "DimName")>>
Example:
<<MemberName("Grid1)", 2, "Period")>> - <<MemberName("Grid1)", 2, "Year")>>
should return the name of the member from the Period dimension from row 2 and the member of the Year dimension from row 2, e.g. Qtr1 - FY12
There is a practically identical function MemberAlias too if it is the alias you want rather than the member name. Have a look in FR studio by inserting a text row / column and then trying to insert function. There are also 2 that you can use that are no longer show in FR studio or the studio user guide but do work (or at least did up until v11.1.1.x) and that is POVMember/POVName (can't remember now!) and POVAlias used to get the member/alias from the POV for a partcular dimension, syntax for that is:
<<POVAlias("Grid1", "DimName")>>
Hope this helps
Stuart