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Davy
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3 years ago

Use BusinessRule.DashboardStringFunction XFBR string rules to extract text out of V#Annotations?

Happy Labor Day!! How can I use BusinessRule.DashboardStringFunction, i.e. XFBR string business rules to extract text out of a datacell in cubeview that has users' text stored in V#Annotations? We ...
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  • ChristianW's avatar
    ChristianW
    3 years ago

    DataCellInfoUsingMemberScript doesn't have a DataCellAnnotation property, you need to go down one more step and select the DataCellEx property first:

    BRApi.Finance.Data.GetDataCellUsingMemberScript(si,"A#Explaination:U8#Comment:V#Annotations" ).DataCellEx.DataCellAnnotation

     

    And for a consistent result, you should specify the full POV to avoid problems.

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Davy
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3 years ago

FYI - For XFBR string rules, you are limited to using BRAPI calls which means you cannot use the standard api.data.getDataCell function.

For example - If you want to use the GetDataCell function then you would have to use the GetDataCellUsingMemberScript function which acts just as the GetDataCell function does: