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JamesKirkby's avatar
JamesKirkby
New Contributor III
4 years ago

Hyphen in Excel Report Book Items

I have a report book I've built that loops thru a dimension and creates a tab for every member in a ud hierarchy. I've set book to label the tabs using the CVUD2 and CVUD2Description.  It works quite...
  • StephD's avatar
    4 years ago

    Hyphens and other "restricted characters" in the tab names in Excel limit some quick view functions - particularly "Create Copy of Selected Quick View".  I'd guess OS is limiting the use of the restricted characters in your tab names.  

  • JamesKirkby's avatar
    4 years ago

    Thanks. I heard the same thing from OneStream. I've submitted an enhancement request as member descriptions do include hyphens sometimes. Would be nice to have this print out on a tab.