Trim a node name till special character "-"

usha.cherukuri

Hi Team,

Just looking for formula to trim my node name till a special character "-".

'AccountL1- 234'

I want to get only AccountL1.

Regards,

Usha

Accepted answers

DavidSmith

I would think the FIND formula would need to be

FIND("-", 'Account L1'.Display Name, 0)

David

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Misbah

@usha.cherukuri

Assumption - Account L1 is your list, if not then tweak your second parameter

First you will have to figure out the place of the " -" . Use this formula in Line item Test

Test = FIND("-", NAME(ITEM('Account L1')), 0)

Second line item Test 1 = LEFT(NAME(ITEM('Account L1')),Test-1)

Hope this helps

Misbah

usha.cherukuri

Hi Mishab,

Thanks for your rsponse, but the first formula for test

FIND("-", NAME(ITEM('Account L1')), 0) doesn't give any result and its a numbered list dimension.

the formula worked but doesnt give any value here.

Regards

Usha

kavinkumar

@usha.cherukuri,

I hope it should be the code of that list. Please try Code(Item('')) instead Name(Item('')).

usha.cherukuri

Hi Kavin,

Yes even I thought so, but still no result:(

It takes the formula in but result is 0 every time, though I have special characters in member name.

Thanks
Usha

kavinkumar

Could you please tell us how would you get the result 'AccountL1- 234'? If it is not code/name, then it should be the attribute of that list (Either property/line item). So apply your formula on that property/line item and you will get your end result.

For ex,

I have a numbered list 'A' with Display Name as property(text). Then the formula should be,

Test = FIND("-", 'A.Display name', 0)

Second line item Test 1 = LEFT('A.Display name',Test-1)

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Kavin.

DavidSmith

I would think the FIND formula would need to be

FIND("-", 'Account L1'.Display Name, 0)

David

usha.cherukuri

Hi David,

Thanks this now works for child node in AccountL1 dimension perfectly.

Regards
Usha

usha.cherukuri

Hi David,

This is working good for Child Level, but Parent Level for 'AccountL1' is 'AccountL0' which is not a number list, for that the value is showing zero.
Is there any way how we can get the parent level also populated here?

Thanks
Usha

DavidSmith

The challenge you have here is the line item is dimensioned by Account L1 and in a composite hierarchy Account L0 is a calculation

So we need to build a couple of extra line items

1. You need to know if the item is a L1 or L0, so set up a Boolean line item called Child? and set this to TRUE

2. Create another line item that brings in the Parent of the L1 - in your model it will be something like PARENT((ITEM('Account L1')). It is always best to have this in a separate line item (You will likely use it again). Remember "calculate once, reference many times"

3. Create a text line item for the name of A0, but set the summary option to 'Last non-blank'

4. This is the existing line item we just solved for

5. Now you bring it all together with a conditional and set this summary option to 'Formula'

Viola!

David

Misbah

@usha.cherukuri

Probably you might have to add two more line items. Here is how I achieved this.

Added Test 3 Line item where I checked Parent Of the List, kept the Summary as Last Non Blank

Added Line item Test 4 - Kept the summary as Formula

One thing to note that you will have to change the Summary of the first line item as well - Change it to Formula

Thanks,

Misbah

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