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emantziaris
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7 months ago

Cube Views: Taking Date from an Entity Dimension Text Field to Calculate Months to Date

I am trying to calculate months to date in a cube view column based on a date entered in a text field within Entity Dimension members. The text field would display in one of the columns on the cube v...
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pranav46
Contributor II
7 months ago

Thinking to create a member with formula (Hope you have UD8 dim empty even if you dont have its okay to use dim based on your app) to read text value of entity, convert into date & display in Cubeview.

In the cube view you need to bring a new member which will have formula and view member which is annotation type.

Below example is hardcoded but I am reading an account and disapplying 01/01/25

 

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    emantziaris
    New Contributor
    7 months ago

    Thank you for the message! I am looking to convert this date to a calculation of months between the current date (today) and the date that is displayed in the text field. 

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      pranav46
      Contributor II
      7 months ago

      Member formula you got to write a vb code. 

      Get the text value from Entity then you write your logic to calc month diff between current date to Text

      Dim EntityText As String = api.Account.Text(api.Pov.Entity.MemberId,1)