INFOR.GET.DIMENSIONS

This function returns requested schema properties for specified dimensions.

INFOR.GET.DIMENSIONS supports these features:

  • Dynamic arrays

    The retrieved values are spilled to the adjacent cells.

Syntax

The function has this syntax:

=INFOR.GET.DIMENSIONS("spillByColumns", "data_connection", "cube" {, ["schema_property"]})

This table shows the parameters and their descriptions:

Parameters Description
spillByColumns An optional Boolean value for spill direction. Specify true to spill by columns or false to spill by rows. Default value: false.
data_connection The unique name of the data connection or a cell reference.
cube A cube unique name or a cell reference.
schema_property Matrix of strings or cell references that represents properties to be returned. Optional parameter with the default value: "" that returns all fields except MDSCHEMA_DIMENSIONS, which needs to be queried explicitly. These values can be used:
  • caption

    Returns the display name of the dimension.

  • unique_name

    Returns the unique name of the dimension.

  • description

    Returns the description of the dimension.

  • default_hierarchy

    Returns the unique name of default hierarchy if available.

  • parent

    Returns the unique name of the cube that contains the dimension.

  • MDSCHEMA_DIMENSIONS rowset

Return values

This function returns the specified schema properties for all available dimensions for the specified data connection and cube.