Substitution Variable in Essbase

Question

Hi Experts,
In our report script, whenever there is a small change in say Product then we need to update several Rows/code in Report scripts.We were using Rename script for the same like -
{Rename "ABC"} "testl"
So, we thought of a solution where we can create say 3 Substitution variables as we have restriction of 255 chars say V1, V2 and V3 substitution variables having this Rename script. and finally create "V" substitution variable = V1+V2+V3
Is there any possibility of having Substitution variable Value as sum of 3 other existing Substitution variables in Essbase? Say in my Case
V = V1+ V2+V3
Please help me out if there is any?

Answer 1

Hi,
Your thinking is sound and creative, however due to the way they work you can't define a subvar as a concatenation of other subvars because it will be interpreted literally. e.g.
sv1 = hello
sv2 = world
sv3 = &sv1 + &sv2
sv3 interpreted by essbase will be: &sv1 + &sv2 and throw an error.
(If you think about it, concatenating two 255 char subvars into another would still exceed the character liimit.)
So,
if you want to concatenate several long subvars, just define them and mash them together:
&sv1 &sv2 = hello world
regards,
Robb Salzmann