Equivalent to GETPIVOTDATA in PP?

BakerUK

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Hi all

Done a bit of Googling and looked at things like CUBEVALUE etc but haven't quite worked out how to get GETPIVOTDATA working when some of the values come from cell references.

I've had to de-personalise this but basically I have:

=GETPIVOTDATA("[Measures].[Vol]",PivotTableName,"[TableResults].[ResultScored]","[TableResults].[ResultScored].&[Gold]","[TableDates].[Year]","[TableDates].[Year].&[Y2017]")

Which returns all the Gold results from Y2017. All I want to change is that the [Gold] and [Y2017] are based on values from cells rather than hard-coded. So that when filters are applied the formula will dynamically update if it needs to look at Silver in Y2016 for example.

Hope that makes sense - I'm sure there must be an obvious change to the syntax but I can't get it to work!

Thanks
 

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Test for Multiple Conditions in IF?
Use AND(test, test, test, test) or OR(test, test, test, ...) as the logical_test argument of IF.
Assuming values in A1 and A2:

=GETPIVOTDATA("[Measures].[Vol]",PivotTableName,"[TableResults].[ResultScored]","[TableResults].[ResultScored].&["&A1&"]","[TableDates].[Year]","[TableDates].[Year].&["&A2&"]")
 
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Hi guys,

The above solution works fine for text, I'm just trying to get my head round it for numbers. Ideally I just want it to lookup a number in the cell but it looks like GETPIVOTDATA reads PP pivots differently.

E.g.
80 reads as [8.E1]
81 as [8.1E1]
133 as [1.33E2]
500 as [5.E2]

So I'm struggling to write a formula that translates all numbers to a format GETPIVOTDATA can read.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
 
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I can't say I've seen that before but maybe I've just been lucky. See if this does it for you:

SUBSTITUTE(TEXT(A1,"0.#######E##),"+","")
 
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Thanks Rory - works and much more succinct than the big IF statement I had put in place.

Thanks again for your help!
 
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